For a number of reasons –too much grief in my life, too sedentary, too much television, too out … More
Tag: Heaney
The most read Lifesaving Poems of 2013
These are the most read Lifesaving Poems posts of 2013. Mary Oliver, ‘The Journey’ I first read this on … More
‘I am fragments’: a note from Seamus Heaney
In the spring of 1998 I wrote to Seamus Heaney. I asked him to consider writing a Foreword to the … More
Heaney’s Pedagogy
A comment Mark Robinson made in the days following Seamus Heaney’s death in August resonated with me. He said he … More