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Kate O'Callaghan

Seamus Heaney Poetic Champion

By Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief & Kate O'Callaghan, Contributor
October / November 2000

October 1, 2000 by Leave a Comment

A native of Northern Ireland, Seamus Heaney won the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. The following excerpts are taken from interviews conducted with him in 1986 and shortly after he won the Nobel in 1996. Poetry summons you. That's been my own experience. The real difficulty about being a poet is not in the writing. It's surviving the silence, surviving lack of … [Read more...] about Seamus Heaney Poetic Champion

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