Vast collection of poems remind us why Seamus Heaney remains indispensable more than 10 years after his death

Poetry

Seamus Heaney in Venice in 2008. Photo: Getty

It is more than a decade since Seamus Heaney’s death in 2013, yet his presence in Irish and world letters feels scarcely diminished.

The publication of The Poems of Seamus Heaney , edited by Rosie Lavan, Bernard O’Donoghue and Matthew Hollis, marks the most ambitious gathering of his work since Opened Ground (1998).

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