TWA Poets: Seamus Heaney

1939 - 2013

It’s the birthday of Irish poet Seamus Heaney, born in Castledawson, Northern Ireland (1939). Heaney began publishing poems in the 1960s about his childhood memories of ordinary things, like potatoes and bullfrogs. He received a letter from the editor of Faber & Faber asking if he’d like to publish a collection. Faber & Faber had published T.S. Eliot, W…