Tuesday, October 13, 2009

News at Eleven: In Seamus Heaney's poetry you get both--

a vivid, almost tangible sense of the subject and the joy of the language.

And, for the record, the Nobel Prize winner does believe President Obama worthy of the honour. The language of American foreign policy had become more conciliatory. "That is a change."

Slack --by Seamus Heaney

from JournalLive: Poem created during slack time in hospital
also JournalLive: Interview: Seamus Heaney

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