Irish Pages: the Classic Heaney Issue - Hardcover

Chris Agee

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1739353749 ISBN 13: 9781739353742

Publisher: The Irish Pages Press, 2023

Synopsis

A hardback reprint of the classic Irish Pages issue on Seamus Heaney to commemorate the tenth anniversary of his death on 30 August 2013. “So many people in Ireland and overseas read, admired, and watched him. The extraordinary degree to which Heaney was a creative and ethical exemplar, shaper, mentor, influence, and generous friend for his fellow poets and writers comes through especially powerfully in this book, with its 54 contributors from Ireland, Britain, the United States and further afield...” Including four last poems by Seamus Heaney, this truly commemorative volume is sure to sell in very large numbers. Sven Birkerts and Helen Vendler on the man and the poet. A Suite of Obituaries & Global Reminiscences by leading poets and writers in Ireland, Britain and the United States. Poems by Kerry Hardie, Michael Coady, Paddy Bushe, Kathleen Jamie, Katie Donovan, Seán Lysaght, Damian Smyth, Ignatius McGovern, John F. Deane, Francis Harvey, Michael Longley, Alan Gillis, Moya Cannon and Harry Clifton. President Michael D. Higgins on John Hewitt & Richard Murphy on poetry and terror. Writing in Irish from Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Cathal Ó Searcaigh and others. PLUS: “Seamus Justin Heaney 1939-2013”, a unique photographic portfolio by Bobbie Hanvey.

About this title

About the Author

Chris Agee is a poet, essayist, photographer and editor. He is the author of Next to Northing, which was shortlisted in Britain for the 2009 Ted Hughes Award, Blue Sandbar Moon and Trump Rant.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Irish Pages Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1739353749
• ISBN 13: 9781739353742
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Agee Chris