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A reading and commentary from interviews Seamus Heaney gave on the writing of his fourth book, North, taken from Dennis O'Driscoll's Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney.

The Heaney interviews are prefaced by a more historical introduction to the bog bodies that figure in his poems from North. The books mentioned and read from in this section are P. V. Glob's The Bog People: Iron Age Man Preserved, Wijnand Van Der Sanden's Through Nature to Eternity: The Bog Bodies of Northwest Europe, Timothy Taylor's The Buried Soul: How Humans Invented Death, Miranda Aldhouse-Green's Bog Bodies Uncovered: Solving Europe's Ancient Mystery.

The first five of Heaney's collections can be purchased here, and a good selection from the first half of his career can be found in Selected Poems 1966-1987.

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