Seamus heaney biography video of albert

Seamus Heaney is a cultural colossus who created some of the most powerful, beautiful and resonant poetry of the last 50 years I am so delighted the family has agreed to share their memories of him for the BBC Two audience.&#x; Patrick Holland, Controller, BBC Two

Heaney died, aged 74, in Six years after his death Heaney's wife Marie, and his three children Michael, Christopher and Catherine, talk about their family life and read some of the poems he wrote for them, and for the first time his four surviving brothers, Hugh, Charlie, Colum and Dan remember their childhood and the shared experiences that inspired many of his finest poems.

Seamus Heaney stands head and shoulders above his contemporaries; Death Of A Naturalist, his first collection of poems published by Faber & Faber (the first of 12) in announced the arrival of a major new talent, and his reputation grew and grew until he was awarded the Nobel Prize in