Portrait of Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney (1939–2013) wrote some of the most revered poems of his time and published them in twelve collections, from 1966’s Death of a Naturalist to 2010’s Human Chain. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. A former Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University, he lived in Dublin, Ireland, until his death in August 2013. His association with AGNI spanned three decades.

Heaney’s book of prose essays The Government of Tongue: The 1986 T. S. Eliot Memorial Essays was reviewed in AGNI 31/32 by Eamon Grennan.

Order AGNI’s limited-edition broadside of “Saw Music,” first published in AGNI 61 as part of the triptych “Out of This World” and later reprinted in his acclaimed collection District and Circle.

AGNI has published the following work:

Out of This World

Poetry by Seamus Heaney

from Beowulf: Grendel Attacks Hrothgar’s Hall

Poetry by Seamus Heaney

Shorts for Simic

Essay by Seamus Heaney

Poet’s Chair

Poetry by Seamus Heaney

Frank Bidart: A Salute

Essay by Seamus Heaney

Place and Displacement: Reflections on Some Recent Poetry from Northern Ireland

Essay by Seamus Heaney

AGNI has published the following translation:

The Two Mice (transfused from the Scots of Robert Henryson [1420-1505] by Seamus Heaney)

Poetry by Aesop Translated by Seamus Heaney
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