Name: ‘Air from Another Life’: Seamus Heaney and the Reflective Self
Start: 2026-10-10T14:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-10-10T15:00:00+01:00
Location: Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again

‘Air from Another Life’: Seamus Heaney and the Reflective Self

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"I rhyme
To see myself, to set the darkness echoing."

Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again

Across his lifetime, Seamus Heaney offered a vivid insight into how his sense of self as a poet evolved, from the grounded confidence of his early voice to a deepening self-awareness in his later years, shaped by creative uncertainty as much as by conviction.Join us at Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again on Saturday 10th at 2pm for a discussion on the ways Heaney reflected on his creative life, drawing on his own words in interviews, essays, and prose. This talk traces his development through moments of assertion, doubt, and renewal.In doing so, we gain a deeper appreciation of the poems and a clearer picture of the man behind them, for whom writing involved a lifelong process of reflection and change.

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