Showing posts with label Irish poet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Irish poet. Show all posts

Thursday, April 26, 2018

"Digging," by Seamus Heaney


Celebrating the Spoken Word


Seamus Heaney, who died in 2013, was considered the greatest Irish poet since William Butler Yeats. I first heard him on BBC Radio when I was teaching English at Hong Kong Baptist College in the early 1980s. In the video below, he reads his poem, "Digging."




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