Digging
Today I return to an old favorite, a poem I used back in 2023. Seamus Heaney’s first published book of poems was 60 years ago in 1966 and the opening poem in that collection was Digging. The same poem is the opening poem in a much later collection of his poetry entitled “Opened Ground” in…
The Needles Still Move!
As a child, if I remember correctly, my mother had knitting needles in her hands most everings. There was always something being knitted. As much as I liked the idea of a finsihed sweater/pullover/jumper, the first trying on always had its challenges! I guess I had a “big” head and after much exertion on pulling…
The Skylight
The back story to this poem has to do with Heaney’s stubborness in refusing to allow his wife to alter his attic writing space by inserting a skylight. To Heaney’s surprise on a return home from an extended trip to Harvard University his wife had managed to pull it off and have a skylight inserted.…
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