Andrew ShieldsOrioles and pumpkins
Black Walnuts
Seamus Heaney
#Poetry #SeamusHeaney #BlackWalnuts #Walnuts #Massachusetts #Autumn #Orioles #Pumpkins #Roof #TheNewYorker
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/29/black-walnuts-seamus-heaney-poem
Longreads"But I’ll be honest: 'Digging' bored me when I first read it. Between me and Heaney’s clean cuts, there was a temperamental misalignment; I tend to prefer poems with a little muss and bedhead." —Elisa Gonzalez for The Yale Review
https://yalereview.org/article/elisa-gonzalez-searching-for-seamus-heaney
General Strike Now2017 Unrest breaks out in the West Bank and Gaza, schools are closed and a general strike takes place in response to America's recognition of ...#marietussaud #coca-cola #chiangkai-shek #otd #greatbritain #apollo17 #emilyhobhouse #leobaekeland #ethiopians #us #madametussaud #switzerland #bern #london #abyssinia #ambaalagi #battle #royalnavy #japanese #hawaii #pearlharbor #naval #italian #southafrica #english #bakelite #taiwan #chinese #philadelphia #worldwarii #nobelprizeforliterature #seamusheaney #westbank #gaza #jerusalem #israel #saa #apollo #thebluemarble #california #pacificsouthwestairlines #surpriseraid #pilotsstrike--powerfulmomentsthat
Did You Know? From Pearl Harbor to SAA’s Pilots’ Strike – Powerful Moments That Shaped December 7
Did You Know? From Pearl Harbor to SAA’s Pilots’ Strike – Powerful Moments That Shaped December 7
VIKINGS vs SAMURAIBeowulf wasn’t just a poem, it was a literary turf war. Oxford vs. Cambridge, identity vs. empire. Then Heaney rolls up in ’99, channels “thole,” and fuses Irish soul with Anglo-Saxon fire. He didn’t translate it, he resurrected it. 🛡️🔥
#Beowulf #SeamusHeaney #OldEnglish #Poetry
🔗 https://vikingsvssamurai.com/beowulf-a-new-verse-translation/
#Beowulf #SeamusHeaney #OldEnglish #Poetry
🔗 https://vikingsvssamurai.com/beowulf-a-new-verse-translation/
Culture | The Guardian US
Hacker NewsThe Pen and the Spade: The Poems of Seamus Heaney
https://literaryreview.co.uk/the-pen-the-spade-2
#HackerNews #SeamusHeaney #Poetry #LiteraryReview #Literature #Art
perseus at KillBaitComprehensive Volume of Seamus Heaney’s Work Unites Published and Unpublished Poems
A newly published collection titled 'The Poems of Seamus Heaney' brings together the complete works of the late Irish Nobel laureate, including both his published and previously unseen poems. The volume, released by Faber, compiles all twelve of Heaney’s poetry collections along with a selection of ... [More info]
Tolkien lit the match. Heaney dropped the torch. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation isn’t just a modern retelling—it’s Old English with a pulse. “Thole” roots it, kenning magic fuels it, and every line drips with myth, blood, and meaning.
#SeamusHeaney #Beowulf #OldEnglish
🔥 https://vikingsvssamurai.com/beowulf-a-new-verse-translation/
#SeamusHeaney #Beowulf #OldEnglish
🔥 https://vikingsvssamurai.com/beowulf-a-new-verse-translation/
bsmall2Poetry not as safe as you'd think... We could get Yeats: "a sterner conscience and a friendlier home" ^1
Seamus Heaney: “A populace that is chloroformed day and night by TV stations like Fox News could do with inoculation by poetry. Obviously, poetry can't be administered like an injection, but it does constitute a boost to the capacity for discrimination and resistance.”
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9927294-a-populace-that-is-chloroformed-day-and-night-by-tv
/HT #JeffreyStClair FB #SeamusHeaney #Yeats #SternerConscience #PoetryVsTV #PoetryVsFoxNews
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https://sacred-texts.com/neu/yeats/lpy/lpy111.htm
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