Faber has announced the publication of the long-awaited, definitive edition of Seamus Heaney’s poetry, featuring a number of previously unpublished poems from the Nobel Prize-winning poet.

“This is the long-awaited, definitive edition of Seamus Heaney’s poetry, featuring a number of previously unpublished poems from the Nobel Prize-winning poet,” Faber said. Faber ...

Catholicism provided a bedrock of imagery and inspiration for the Nobel Prize-winning poet, and his defection from it was without bitterness or reproach Catholicism provided a bedrock of imagery ...

On the cusp of the millennium, Seamus Heaney reflected “We can’t keep on writing elegies.” Four years after receiving the Nobel Prize, the 60-year-old Irish ... created out of the newfound but ...

Michael Longley, the Irish poet whose long career included more than 40 books, died last week. He was lauded by literary, ...

Among his best-known work is the 1994 poem Ceasefire, inspired by the then-ceasefires in his native Northern Ireland and the search for peace and ... be befitting of a Nobel Prize for Literature”.

Mr Longley died in hospital at the age of 85 on January 22. His funeral is to take place in All Souls Church in Belfast followed by a private committal at Roselawn Crematorium. The poet won a number ...

and it has long been my belief that his work is of the level that would be befitting of a Nobel Prize for Literature”. A funeral notice for Mr Longley stated: “Michael will be remembered ...