Seamus Heaney: 3 Poems from "Death of a Naturalist" & Interviews with Heaney

Published: May 16, 2021, 10:12 p.m.

An episode from 5/16/21: Tonight, I read three poems from one of the great literary debuts of the twentieth century, Seamus Heaney's Death of a Naturalist (1966). Following the poems is a reading from interviews Heaney gave on the writing of Death of a Naturalist, taken from Dennis O'Driscoll's \u2060Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney\u2060. The poems are:

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