Seamus Heaney | Seamus Heaney
Oct.24.2009
‘And catch the heart off guard … and blow it open’ : at the Clifden Arts Week, September 17-27, 2009.Pat MullanI live in Connemara now in a place called Recess where smart alecs recently added an ‘ion’ to the road sign turning it into Recession, fitting I suppose for the time that is in it – as...
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Aug.22.2008
This is my new favorite poem.
Seamus Heaney- "Digging"
Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; as snug as a gun.
Under my window a clean rasping sound When the spade sinks into gravelly ground: My father, digging. I look down
Till his straining rump among the flowerbeds...
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