Seamus Heaney's "May"

The Daily Poem · May 22, 2023 · 7m

What better way to bring back The Daily Poem than with a poem by one of my favorite poets, Seamus Heaney.

Heaney was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.[1][2] Among his best-known works is Death of a Naturalist (1966), his first major published volume. Heaney was and is still recognised as one of the principal contributors to poetry in Ireland during his lifetime. American poet Robert Lowell described him as "the most important Irish poet since Yeats", and many others, including the academic John Sutherland, have said that he was "the…