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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” inContinue reading “Digging”

Seamus Heaney’s first published book of poems was 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 1998. Heaney certainly opens ground throughout his life, as he digs with his pen. As he sitsContinue reading “Digging”