Seamus Heaney: 3 Poems from "Wintering Out," & Interviews with Heaney

An episode from 6/12/21: Tonight, I read three poems from Seamus Heaney's third collection, Wintering Out (1972):

• The Tollund Man
• Limbo
• First Calf

Following the poems is a reading from interviews Heaney gave on the writing of Wintering Out, taken from Dennis O'Driscoll's Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney.

The first five of Heaney's collections can be purchased here, and a good selection from the first half of his career can be found in Selected Poems 1966-1987.

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