A Big Life
Michael Hofmann: Seamus Heaney, 4 June 2015
New Selected Poems 1988-2013
by Seamus Heaney.
Faber, 222 pp., £18.99, November 2014,978 0 571 32171 1 Show More
by Seamus Heaney.
Faber, 222 pp., £18.99, November 2014,
“... thing in our time, a successful one almost unexampled. The very greatest – Heaney, or Les Murray – have come huge and unlikely distances from obscure origins: ‘Like starlight that is light years on the go/From far away and takes light years arriving.’ Murray’s biographer, Peter Alexander, makes the striking ... ”