Dream warrior Apr 15, 2008
Carpentaria offers a portrait of a fictional town called Desperance, where white and Aboriginal people are segregated, the mayor, Stan Bruiser, is a bigot capable of limitless brutality, the "good" whites are ineffectual, and the central Aboriginal characters - fisherman-turned-taxidermist Normal Phantom and his wife, Angel Day - have to fight to preserve what Wright, echoing Seamus Heaney, calls "the sovereignty of the mind". When white people have taken your land, exiled you to the scummy edge... (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
More of this story Apr 5, 2008
"I think this will be a chance to hear some challenging work, some important voices on the Los Angeles literary scene," said Steinman, who has brought Pulitzer Prize-winning poets such as Charles Simic and Nobel Laureates including Seamus Heaney to the library's Mark Taper Auditorium in the past. Stephanie Halpern, events coordinator for Red Hen Press, said that the reading, timed to fall within National Poetry Month, is intended as a celebration of L.A. poets and poetry. (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
'Burial' debuts at New Haven festival Mar 30, 2008
The work, helmed by Lucy Pitman-Wallace, formerly of the Royal Shakespeare Company, features a new translation of Sophocles' "Antigone" by Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney. The show, with a stripped-down production, will first bow at the Spoleto Festival May 29-June 2. (Variety)
Read more... Mar 25, 2008
The films feature the work of acclaimed poets such as Adrienne Rich, current U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic, Sharon Olds, Yusef Komunyakaa, Robert Frost, Billy Collins, Stanley Kunitz, and Seamus Heaney. The series also includes actress Mary Louise Parker reading a poem by Mark Strand, playwright Tony Kushner reading Walt Whitman, and musician Wynton Marsalis reading W.B. Yeats. (PNN Online)
Poetry Everywhere Mar 21, 2008
The films feature the work of acclaimed poets such as Adrienne Rich, current U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic, Sharon Olds, Yusef Komunyakaa, Robert Frost, Billy Collins, Stanley Kunitz, and Seamus Heaney ... Seamus Heaney - "Black-Berry Picking" (WGBH/David Grubin Productions) 8. (PR Newswire)
Justice move key to royal visit Mar 20, 2008
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Who was St. Patrick? Mar 18, 2008
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Playing the common world's melody Mar 17, 2008
Mere rhymesters can do it, bards of the birthday card, bluff wearers of the heart on the sleeve, but who would have imagined that an artist of Seamus Heaney's seriousness, range and subtlety would appeal so directly not only to the sternest tenders of the groves of academe, but also to the simplest hearts. From his first published volume, Death of a Naturalist, which opens with that most tender and determined of manifestos, Digging, Heaney has had a wide and more than enthusiastic following, for... (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Stravinsky experts in plagiarism row Mar 16, 2008
In the past, major literary figures such as Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney and Edward Said have all been savaged in its pages. Additional reporting by Igor Toronyi-Lalic. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Beowulf, we hardly knew you Feb 24, 2008
Or it may be because modern viewers recoiled at the clunky dialogue, preferring the lilting phrases of Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, who translated it a few years back. It may even be because audiences liked Beowulf better when he wasn't a creep. (Globe and Mail)
Andrew O'Hagan: The people's poet Jan 26, 2008
"The way Burns sounded," writes Seamus Heaney, "his choice of words, his rhymes and metaphors, all that collapsed the distance I expected to feel between myself and the schoolbook poetry I encountered first at Anahorish Elementary School . . . He did not fail the Muse or us or himself as one of poetry's chosen instruments.". We're in a period that doesn't favour difficulty, and Burns's language is sometimes difficult, so rather than complain about falling standards editors must produce editions... (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Fierce and funny poet finds right angle on life to win top prize Jan 15, 2008
The poet, Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University, joins the Nobel poet Seamus Heaney and the late Poet Laureate Ted Hughes as a winner of the prize, described by Andrew Motion, the current Poet Laureate, as the honour most poets want to win. Peter Porter, chairman of the judges, said: Sean O Brien is undoubtedly a major artist, a consistently good poet who sees us living in the middle of a kind of detritus left over from the 19th century. (Times Online)
O'Brien honoured with poetry win Jan 15, 2008
Previous winners of the prestigious prize have included Seamus Heaney and Carol Ann Duffy. Resonant. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Poetry prize Jan 15, 2008
Last year's prize was won by Seamus Heaney for his collection, District and Circle. Other previous winners include Paul Muldoon, Don Paterson, Ted Hughes, George Szirtes and Carol Ann Duffy. (Guardian Unlimited)
Charleston festival rechristens old hall with reworked opera Jan 3, 2008
The recent translation by Irish poet Seamus Heaney is being performed by the Nottingham Playhouse Theatre under the live oaks at the College of Charleston. In dance, the Ballet Du Grand Theatre de Geneve makes its first appearances at the festival. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
Hillary Had No Role in Irish Peace Dec 24, 2007
After meeting the Irish president, the U.S. ambassador, Ted Kennedys sister, and the Nobel Prize winning poet Seamus Heaney, Bono and the Clintons went shopping and tried to trace Bill Clintons mothers genealogy. Not exactly heavy-duty diplomacy. (Newsmax)
Dick Morris, Eileen McGann: Hill Had No Role in Irish... Dec 22, 2007
After meeting the Irish president, the U.S. ambassador, Ted Kennedy s sister, and the Nobel Prize winning poet Seamus Heaney, Bono and the Clintons went shopping and tried to trace Bill Clinton s mother s genealogy. Not exactly heavy-duty diplomacy. (Fox News)
Alice Walker's papers going to Emory library Dec 19, 2007
At Emory's Manuscript, Archive and Rare Book Library, Walker's papers will join those of author Salman Rushdie, the late British poet laureate Ted Hughes and Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney as well as significant collections related to Harlem Renaissance novelists and poets Langston Hughes and James Weldon Johnson. Walker, 63, was flying to Mexico for a vacation Tuesday and couldn't be reached for comment. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Review: Simon Armitage's new translation of 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' Dec 14, 2007
Review: Simon Armitage's new translation of 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' - International Herald Tribune. Edward Hirsch's new book of poems, "Special Orders," will be published next spring. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
For Biden, it's the resume over the rallying cry Dec 12, 2007
Biden refers to the incumbent president as "this guy" and cites earthy wisdom like "It ain't the plan, it's the man," but often closes with a quote from Seamus Heaney - whom he identifies as "my favorite contemporary poet" - about making "hope and history rhyme.". Every few minutes, Biden finds himself speaking with so much bravado that he has to caution his audience to continue taking him seriously. (Boston Globe)
Movies inspire recommendations for gift books Dec 8, 2007
Read Seamus Heaney s translation. It is marvelous. (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)
School poetry teaching 'too limited' Dec 7, 2007
Poems such as Wilfred Owen's Dulce et Decorum Est, WH Auden's Funeral Blues ("Stop all the clocks") and Dylan Thomas's Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night are popular, and when it comes to poets rather than poems, Shakespeare, Blake, Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney are regulars. Too many secondaries lack a coherent teaching programme. (Guardian Unlimited)
Poet laureate hails province's prizewinners Dec 2, 2007
Not since the late Sixties, when Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon burst on to the international literary scene, have Northern Ireland's poets been lauded with such global praise ... Maureen Boyle, one of the emerging poets, praised the work of the Queen's University Writers' Group and the Seamus Heaney Centre in Belfast for encouraging new writers ... Seamus Heaney: the TS Eliot award. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Beowulf in sheep's clothing Dec 1, 2007
The best modern writer I know on Beowulf is the poet Seamus Heaney, who undertook the heroic task of translating the Anglo-Saxon text into a poem for contemporary readers. Beowulf, he says, is "a work of the greatest imaginative vitality, a masterpiece where the structuring of the tale is as elaborate as the beautiful contrivances of its language". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
The best reads Nov 25, 2007
I took two challenging books to read in a cabin on Lake Huron in Canada in September: The Idiot by Dostoevsky (Penguin Classics) and District and Circle by Seamus Heaney (Faber). But what instead caught my eye was a 'reader's proof' lying on the coffee table of The Cult of the Amateur (Nicholas Brealey) by Andrew Keen. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
The pathos of things Nov 24, 2007
An economy of means, a sense of stillness and transience, Japanese poetry shares many of the qualities of Old Irish verse. English poetry had much to learn from both traditions. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
For the record Nov 20, 2007
Correction: Because of a reporting error, the surname of author Seamus Heaney was misspelled in the of "Beowulf" in Friday's Weekend section. The Globe welcomes information about errors that call for corrections. (Boston Globe)
Monster of a myth enters another dimension Nov 17, 2007
There have been multiple translations, including a lyrical one by Seamus Heaney, which was a surprising bestseller in 2000. This year a dance company took over a Los Angeles ice rink to mount Beowulf On Ice. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Sexy, powerful 'Beowulf' transforms ancient epic Nov 16, 2007
Perhaps this breathtaking spectacle will inspire kids to read the original epic poem (or the 2000 version translated by Seamus Heaney). Maybe it will just pack them into theaters. (USA Today -- Life)
'Beowulf' is a 3-D gore-fest Nov 16, 2007
Of course "Beowulf," which was screened for critics only in 3-D, does have a more impressive literary pedigree than, say, "Bwana Devil." Seamus Heaney, who did an admired recent translation from the Anglo-Saxon, called it "one of the foundation works of poetry in English." But you'd never know that by what director Robert Zemeckis has put on screen. ADVERTISEMENT. (Los Angeles Times)
Beowulf's epic comeback Nov 13, 2007
There have been multiple translations, including a lyrical one by Seamus Heaney, which was a surprising bestseller in 2000. Earlier this year a dance company took over a Van Nuys skating rink to mount "Beowulf on Ice!" in which Grendel rode in on a big blue Zamboni ice-leveling machine. (Los Angeles Times)
'More life than a wood-full of cats' Nov 3, 2007
The diagnosis of cancer was the trigger for Hughes to gather together the poems he'd written about Sylvia (and Assia), revise them, add new ones, and - using a voice so direct that it seemed like "some kind of obscure crime" - publish and be damned: "It will bring the sky down on my head ... But so what. The sky's fallen anyway." His relief at getting Birthday Letters out there (when "all these 25 years or so I've lived under a regime that found every reason to hide them like a family idiot"),... (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Bin Laden among world's geniuses: Report Oct 30, 2007
British artists and musicians feature heavily, including Brit Art leader Damien Hirst at number 15, poet Seamus Heaney at 26, playwright Harold Pinter at 31, Sir Paul McCartney at 58, David Bowie at 67, Harry Potter author JK Rowling at 83 and filmmaker Ken Russell at 100. Sir Richard Branson, the head of Virgin Group, at 49, chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall, at 58, and psychologist Dorothy Rowe, at 72, also made the list. (India Times, India)
Those Irish eyes are smiling - on Vancouver Oct 18, 2007
Keegan, 39, is the author of an award-winning collection of short stories, Antarctica, which had critics comparing her to William Trevor, Seamus Heaney and even James Joyce. Her second book will be released in North America in the spring. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
The pot boils over Sep 22, 2007
Vicious feud threatens to split Britain s most famous authors and their agents - Times Online. Free with tomorrow's Sunday Times, the essential Uni guide. (The Sunday Times)
Redmond's job: to give culture city a touch of Scouse Sep 13, 2007
Soaps creator enlisted to lift Liverpool project King of TV ratings joins slimmed-down board. Helen Carter and David WardThursday September 13, 2007. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Q&A with Robert Alter Sep 2, 2007
I was almost flabbergasted by the enthusiastic response of people like Seamus Heaney to the ``The Five Books of Moses. " IDEAS: Did you grew up with Hebrew?ALTER: I had the classic American bar mitzvah, which meant I could read the Hebrew alphabet and knew about 100 words. Then I got into a Hebrew class for kids who had just finished their bar mitzvah. Then, in my mid-teens, I went to a Hebrew-speaking summer camp, where I got fluency in the modern language.IDEAS: Why did you get so strongly... (Boston Globe)
The People's Business - Iowa State Fair presidential hopeful ribbon winners Aug 31, 2007
Joe Biden closed two state fair speeches by quoting Irish poet Seamus Heaney and urging fairgoers to help him make "hope and history rhyme." Unfortunately, the Steer and Stein was fresh out of Guinness. Contest: Healthy Choices Blue Ribbon - Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee was determined to resist the fair's culinary sirens' song. (Missouri Valley Times News, IA)
Writers blend fiction, poetry in two Miss. readings Aug 14, 2007
Other poets I draw upon are Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, Ovid, Sylvia Plath, Mary Jo Salter, Daniel Hall, JD McClatchy, Robert Frost, Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop-although I certainly don't blame any of them for my shortcomings. Kevin: Yes, Jim, if he didn't give pragmatic advice, he always inspired us to want more, more than what we had done so far. (The Clarion-Ledger)
'Make yer point' Aug 11, 2007
In the mid-1960s he lectured at Queen's University, Belfast, and around him gathered a group of younger writers that included Michael and Edna Longley, Seamus Heaney and Bernard MacLaverty. Later, at the University of Glasgow, he tutored a weekly creative writing class in his spare time. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
The Cornish giant Aug 1, 2007
" And what did he discover? "The quality of the raw materials and standard of cooking we encountered was quite special," he says. For the most part, the recipes in the book rely on fine ingredients - from Greek kefalotiri cheese to rice-shaped, "orzo" pasta - as much as culinary skill. Stein aims to make the hardest-to-source foods available through his deli, and by mail order.Many of the dishes are familiar - calzone, tabbouleh and tagine - but with new twists prised from local cooks. The... (Guardian Unlimited)
Q&A: curriculum reform Jul 12, 2007
The issue explained: Secondary school curriculum reform. Donald MacLeod looks at what 11 to 14-year-old pupils can expect to learn under the latest reforms to the secondary school curriculum. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Success of abstinence in cutting teen pregnancies is a 'myth' Jul 9, 2007
Success of abstinence in cutting teen pregnancies is a 'myth. By Sarah WomackLast Updated: 1:48am GMT 02/12/2006. (Yahoo News -- Birth Control)
Disney sets out to make 'The Passion for kids' Jul 9, 2007
Disney sets out to make 'The Passion for kids. By Chris Hastings and Charles Laurence in New YorkLast Updated: 11:34pm GMT 05/03/2005. (Yahoo News -- 'The Passion of the Christ')
Emory literary archives gain respect Jun 30, 2007
English/Irish literature professors Ron Schuchard and Geraldine Higgins flank a photograph of Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney at Emory University ... Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney sold Emory about half his archive ... The first piece in the collection a draft of a 1988 speech given at Emory by Seamus Heaney set the university on the path to collecting poetry. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Double vision Jun 30, 2007
Anna Ralph I'm the King of the Castle by Susan Hill In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bront Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys. Pat Barker War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky Holy Sonnets of John Donne Poems of George Herbert Sons and Lovers by DH Lawrence. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Logue's War Music Jun 23, 2007
Most translations lean towards one side or the other: for example, Michael Alexander s Beowulf is relatively faithful to the Anglo-Saxon epic, whilst Seamus Heaney s version strays further in order to achieve poetic effects. Christopher Logue s version of Homer s Iliad, however, has no such concerns about fidelity to the original text. (Suite101.com)
Opine: John Cunningham Jun 8, 2007
Finally, the poems of W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney, which provide solace at the end of a long day. If you could meet any scholar, author, composer, musician or entrepreneur dead or alive who would it be and why. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
No more rock, this poet's on a roll Jun 6, 2007
" Airstream Land Yacht is easily the most ambitious, dense and elusive of Babstock's three books, as the titles of some of its poems attest (Ataraxia, The Minds of the Higher Animals, Subject, with Rhyme, Riding a Swell, Essentialist). Mean, by contrast, reads very much like the accumulated work of a man in his 20s, with its conceits like "moss laid a lime rug" and "reading the cairns of warm dung like prayers before lunch," as well as its plentiful gusts of subjectivity and riffs on the... (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Sydney Writers' Festival opening night address May 31, 2007
For their love of argument and their vivid passion for the soul, Saul Bellow and Joseph Brodsky and Gunter Grass and David Malouf and Seamus Heaney are the news that stays news. The hundreds of writers here in Sydney this week are busy each with the news that stays news. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Bronner: About Saving Darfur May 31, 2007
Dario Fo, Umberto Eco, Jurgen Habermas, Vaclav Havel, Seamus Heaney, Bernard Henri-Levy, Harold Pinter, Franca Rame and Tom Stoppard signed a letter calling for international economic sanctions against the Sudan that would also include travel bans and the freezing of individual assets in western banks. "Forbid them our shores and our health service and luxury goods," according to Geldof, and the crisis can be ended in three weeks. (Zmag.org)
Ireland an EU success story May 17, 2007
Seamus Heaney, the poet and Nobel laureate, recited a poem to a large, enthralled audience in the city's Phoenix Park. For observers, the venue was wonderfully symbolic. (BBC News -- Europe)
"Woodstock Of The Mind" May 11, 2007
Making hay out of bookstores / Welsh town's self-titled king rules over realm of bibliophiles. " Hay became a book town in the early 1960s when Richard Booth, an eccentric anarchist and recent Oxford graduate, bought the 800-year-old Hay Castle and declared himself King of Hay. King Richard's vision was to create a Town of Books that would lure visitors to the banks of the River Wye and give his kingdom an economic foundation. Booth transformed Hay Castle into a sprawling secondhand bookstore... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
Stormont back as differences are put aside May 9, 2007
The leaders of Sinn Fin and the Democratic Unionists, the main Catholic and Protestant parties, quoted from the Bible and the poet Seamus Heaney as they pledged to work together. For Mr Blair, the moment marked the beginning of the end of his premiership - a final crescendo before he announces his resignation from office. (Financial Times)
The miracle of Belfast May 9, 2007
In the meantime, it does the heart good to chart the progress of Mr Paisley from the one-time firebrand who seemed to revel in discord to the figure who, after his late-life odyssey, declared: "That was yesterday. Today is today." And when he spoke of looking forward to "wonderful healing", his language irresistibly recalled the lines of the poet Seamus Heaney, which were written years ago but which could have been inspired by the events of yesterday. "So hope for a great sea-change on the far... (Independent)
Martin McGuinness: Peacemaker and poet May 6, 2007
While his verse may not rival that of Seamus Heaney, he has shown versatility, proving proficient in IRA activities, politics, negotiation and now high public office. His last spell in government did not last long, falling apart because of IRA misbehaviour. (Independent)
Emory to unveil OConnor letters Apr 26, 2007
Emory is home to a variety of literary collections, ranging from the personal papers and library of Salman Rushdie to collections from poets Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney. 2007 The Associated Press. (MSNBC -- Lifestyle)
'Voices' speaks of poet's painful childhood Apr 26, 2007
Voices' speaks of poet's painful childhood - baltimoresun. Voices' speaks of poet's painful childhood. (SunSpot.net)
Get your hands off our pagan statue Apr 15, 2007
The Janus, which has stood in the Caldragh graveyard on Boa Island in Co Fermanagh since it was put up by the Celts more than 2,000 years ago, inspired the Nobel prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney to write the poem, 'January God. Locals hold the 2ft tall figure, depicting a man on one side and a female on the other, in awe. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Ulster poetry speaks with rhyme and reason Apr 12, 2007
Georgetown University English professor George O'Brien reads from one of his favorite books by poet Seamus Heaney in his office. Bert V. Goulait (THE WASHINGTON TIMES). (Washington Times)
'Find your voice,' local poet advises Apr 6, 2007
Saba said he also enjoys the work of Seamus Heaney, the modern Irish Poet. "His language is just so interesting to me," he said, "the way he describes things." His advice for people who are just starting to write poetry is to keep doing so. (Hamden Journal, CT)
The fatal flaw Mar 31, 2007
Still, from Dickens to Steinbeck, and from William Blake to Seamus Heaney, great works of the imagination have been made through a passionate engagement with politics. Tom Paulin's Faber Book of Political Verse runs to nearly 500 pages and doesn't seem overlong. (Guardian Unlimited)
Plant manager transforms rare woods into handmade pens Mar 27, 2007
Irish poet Seamus Heaney was once asked about his writing method. etween my finger and my thumb the squat pen rests, he said. (Columbus Commercial Dispatch, MS)
How Geldof urged writers to go to war over Darfur Mar 25, 2007
Umberto Eco, Dario Fo, Gunter Grass, Jurgen Habermas, Vaclav Havel, Seamus Heaney, Bernard Henri-Levy, Harold Pinter, Franca Rame and Tom Stoppard have united to list the sanctions that, in their view, Europe must impose forthwith. The Observer can reveal the story behind the letter, drafted as Sudan refuses to hand over two officials named as war crimes suspects by the International Criminal Court and as yesterday the UN humanitarian chief John Holmes was barred from visiting one of Darfur's... (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Invisible threads Mar 24, 2007
Just a few years later, Muldoon was being acclaimed as a precocious teenage poet who, legend had it, sent a sheaf of poems to Seamus Heaney asking what was wrong with them ... "It came out in the mid-60s when I was 14 or 15, and I read that in the way that other kids would read the Dandy. At that stage I had no idea that Faber was in any way significant. It was just a great anthology of 20th-century poetry that went right the way up to Hughes, Larkin, Plath and Thom Gunn. In other words, there... (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
