Seamus Heaney

[Neville Briggs]

I heard on the news that the Irish poet Seamus Heaney had died yesterday. He was one of the great poets of our time. One of my favourites of his is..The Railway Children.

[Stephen Whiteside]

What do you like about Seamus Heaney, Neville?

[r.magnay]

...could it be 'the railway children' Stephen?....

[warooa]

....i would have loved to be angel on the wall last night as he and James and Brendan and William and all the rest of em got on it....." where stream of whiskey are flowing"

and Oscar, of course . . . and maybe Spike doing "On the Ning Nang Nong"??

[warooa]

I thought MacGowan was already there?

Maybe he just looks it. Bottoms up, Seamus

[Neville Briggs]

Stephen. He was ' earthy ' and hard hitting. His poem about the young woman buried for centuries in the tar pit and his poem about the IRA killings are very striking. He was also lyrical like his poem Homecomings which starts
Fetch me the sandmartin
skimming and veering
breast to breast with himself
in the clouds of the river.

As you would know Matt.