A Big Life
Michael Hofmann: Seamus Heaney, 4 June 2015
New Selected Poems 1988-2013
by Seamus Heaney.
Faber, 222 pp., £18.99, November 2014,978 0 571 32171 1 Show More
by Seamus Heaney.
Faber, 222 pp., £18.99, November 2014,
“... Robert Lowell has a poem called ‘Picture in The Literary Life, a Scrapbook’ which begins:A mag photo, I before I was I, or my books –a listener … A cheekbone gumballs out my cheek;too much live hair.Not knowing the photo of Lowell, I go instead to the picture of Seamus Heaney on the front of the companion volume to this one, New Selected Poems 1966-87, painfully young, worried-looking, Noh-rice-flour-pale, against a dark brick wall ... ”