Wobbly, I am
John Kerrigan: Famous Seamus, 25 April 2024
The Letters of Seamus Heaney
edited by Christopher Reid.
Faber, 820 pp., £40, October 2023,978 0 571 34108 5 Show More
edited by Christopher Reid.
Faber, 820 pp., £40, October 2023,
“... with a lot of anxious and eager kids all wanting to hear they’re the greatest thing since, say, Charles Olson.’ This might be Larkin to Kingsley Amis, and it’s a nice sting in the tail that we can be sure Heaney and Longley thought Olson no great thing. Even less expected is a postcard to David Hammond, a singer and TV director and one of Heaney’s ... ”