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| Aloft On Easterly Winds | ...Alyn Shipton takes to the BRISTOL Downs to talk to fliers, oriental historians and the poet SEAMUS HEANEY about history of the kite.... |
| Archive Hour, The | ...Denys Hawthorne presents extracts from the sound arcHIVes of BBC Radio Ulster, featuring the voices and recollections of some of IRELAND's best-known writers - including John Mcgahern, SEAMUS HEANEY, Brian Friel, Edna O'Brien, Tyrone Guthrie and Kathleen Behan. Plus a few snatches of song.... |
| Archive On 4 | ...Motion's stint as Poet Laureate ended with predictable discussions about his successor and what he did or didn't do. But the lasting legacy of his laureateship and the great achievement of his tenure is his creation, with sound producer Richard Carrington, of the remarkable online Poetry Archive, begun in 1999 and growing. It includes contemporary poets reading their work, including SEAMUS HEANEY, UA Fanthorpe and Jackie Kay and historic recordings by poets including Hilaire Belloc, Siegfried Sassoon, WB Yeats and even Tennyson and Browning. As well as the poems there are sections for children and teachers, interviews with poets, poets in residence and useful information about genres, forms and metres. If you want to know what an anapaest is, or a pantoum, the Poetry Archive can help.... |
| Bard Of Ireland - Irish Melodies | ...Robbie Meredith marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of the Irish poet and musician Thomas Moore's Irish Melodies. This collection of songs reverberated for over 100 years after their first publication and, according to some, came to define not only Irish music by also the sentimental and romantic Irish character. With contributions from Nobel Laureate SEAMUS HEANEY, musicologist Una Hunt and biographer Ronan Kelly.... |
| Beowulf | ...SEAMUS HEANEY reads from his new translation of the great Anglo-Saxon poem.... |
| Book Of The Month | ...An extended review of one of the month's most interesting new publications. This edition features `Strong Words: Modern Poets on Modern Poetry', edited by W N Herbert and Matthew Hollis. An anthology of more than a hundred years of poetic manifestos, the book includes essays by Ezra Pound, W H Auden, SEAMUS HEANEY and Andrew Motion ... |
| Book Programme, The [radio Ulster] | ...William Crawley talks to Bernard Cornwell about his novel depicting the battle of Agincourt, plus a review of Denis O'Driscoll's interviews with SEAMUS HEANEY, Stepping Stones.... |
| Coming To Terms, The | ...As the second anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement approaches, poet Paul Muldoon investigates whether the Northern IRELAND peace process has been influenced by writers and artists on both sides of the border. Contributors include SEAMUS HEANEY, Neil Jordan, Medbh McGuckian, Tom Paulin, Patrick McCabe and Glenn Patterson. How far have artists helped to create the terms of peace?... |
| Coming To Terms | ...Just over two years on from the Good Friday Agreement, poet Paul Muldoon investigates whether the Northern IRELAND peace process has been influenced by writers and artists on both sides of the border. Contributors include SEAMUS HEANEY, Neil Jordan, Medbh McGuckian, Tom Paulin, Patrick McCabe and Glenn Patterson. How far have artists helped to create the terms of peace?... |
| Finelines - Special | ...Christopher Cook takes the chair for poetry and conversation. He talks to SEAMUS HEANEY about his latest book, `Electric Light', which visits sites of the classical world and revisits the poet's childhood.... |
| Frost Fair | ...Joining her to learn about the fairs and to offer their own reflections on ice and the British imagination are guests including SEAMUS HEANEY, Carol Ann Duffy, Michael Morpurgo, Norwegian 'ice musician' Terje Isungset and culinary historian Ivan Day, who provides traditional gin and gingerbread.... |
| Glory Of Love, The | ...Five readings for the week of Valentine's Day, including John Betjeman, SEAMUS HEANEY and Carol Ann Duffy.... |
| Golden Apples | ...SEAMUS HEANEY talks to Patricia Lysaght, editor of Folklore, about the influence of the Irish language and culture on the poetry of WB Yeats. For much of Yeats' life he worked closely with Lady Gregory. Although she appears in many of his poems, Lady Gregory is rarely remembered for her work as a collector of folklore. Unlike Yeats, she had learnt the Irish language and she certainly brought him into contact with the living myths and beliefs of the 'invisible world' of Irish world. Patricia Lysaght explores the role of Irish language culture in Yeats' - and Heaney's - verse.... |
| Greek And Latin Voices - Virgil | ...SEAMUS HEANEY reflects on the lasting influence which Virgil has had on his own poetry and on the Western literary tradition, in a talk illustrated with some of Heaney's translations of the Roman poet's work.... |
| Hobsbaum's Choice | ...Wherever he has lived, the poet and critic Philip Hobsbaum has identified writers of talent and genius and invited them into his home. Roisin McAuley invites SEAMUS HEANEY, James Kelman, Liz Lochhead and others - including Hobsbaum himself - to assess his method of critical analysis and to recreate the electric atmosphere of the group.... |
| I'll Dig With It | ...In one of the most famous last lines of modern poetry, SEAMUS HEANEY resolves to use his pen as a spade and excavate. Like many poets, Heaney is drawn to archaeology. Christine Finn, an archaeologist and poet herself, explores the connections between these two crafts.... |
| Map Of British Poetry, A | ...With contributions from Declan McGonagle and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams and poems by Jackie Kay, Ezra Pound, SEAMUS HEANEY, Edward Thomas, Anne Ridler, Henry Vaughan, Dylan Thomas and Emily Bronte.... |
| Metamorphoses | ...Next in series: METAMORPHOSED - SEAMUS HEANEY... |
| Milosz's Abc, The | ...A profile of the Polish poet Cseslaw Milosz, who will by 90 at the end of this week. Born in the countryside of Lithuania before the Russian Revolution, Milosz witnessed the destruction of Warsaw during the Second World War, lived in exile in France and California and, in 1980, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. The programme mimics the alphabetical form of Milosz's recent memoirs and includes contributions from SEAMUS HEANEY, Helen Vendler, Thomas Venclova and Adam Zagakewski.... |
| Poems From The Proms | ...This includes an anonymous salute to Sir Henry Wood, a satire to the tune of Jerusalem, as well as poems by Jo Shapcott, Peter Porter and SEAMUS HEANEY. The reader is Tom Durham.... |
| Poet Of The Month | ...A protégée of Northumbrian poet Basil Bunting, he was a regular at the Morden Tower in Newcastle along with Ted Hughes, SEAMUS HEANEY, Allen Ginsberg, and Ed Dorn. MacSweeney was a man of contradictions; a Romantic poet, a political journalist who raged against the world but also a naturalist whose writing was rooted in the Northumbrian landscape. His refusal to engage with the Establishment was incompatible with commercial or mainstream success, and he died an alcoholic's death, on the fringes of the poetry scene.... |
| Poetry Please | ...01: Ballad of Douglas Bridge - Francis Carlin [1.21] read by RM 02: The butcher's dozen (extract) - Thomas Kinsella [2.45] read by IM 03: Dublin-Belfast railway line - Paul Durcan [1.36] read by the poet 04: For any women who pass this house - John Hewitt [0.50] read by IM 05: The coasters - John Hewitt [3.14] read by RM 06: Desertmartin - Tom Paulin [1.58] read by IM 07: Canton of expectation - SEAMUS HEANEY [2.30] read by RM... |
| Postscript | ...SEAMUS HEANEY At 60... |
| Sitting For Fay | ...... |
| Six Of The Best | ...English teacher Chris Nicholson from Bedford Modern School explores a SEAMUS HEANEY poem with his class of 11- and 12-year-old boys.... |
| Something Understood [world Service] | ...... |
| Staging Ireland | ...Contributors include SEAMUS HEANEY, Tom Paulin, Stephen Rea and Seamus Deane.... |
| Stanza | ...Next in series: SEAMUS HEANEY... |
| Sunday Feature | ...Next in series: STATION ISLAND - SEAMUS HEANEY... |
| Sweeney Astray | ...Written, adapted and narrated by SEAMUS HEANEY. The story of a Warrior King, who, in his flight from the new Christian morality, transmogrifies into a bird and goes astray in the wilderness.... |
| Ted Hughes - A Service Of Thanksgiving | ...From Westminster Abbey. Friends of the late poet laureate, including SEAMUS HEANEY and Derek Walcott, give thanks for his life and read from his work. The service includes music performed by Alfred Brendel, the Tallis Scholars and the Abbey's Special Services Choir. Introduced by Francine Stock ... |
| Verb, The | ...SEAMUS HEANEY on his new essay collection `Finders Keepers', and a report from Seoul on new challanges for Korean writers.... |
| Viewing The Century - Seamus Heaney | |
| With Great Pleasure | ...entertains an audience with some of his favourite pieces of writing read by Jilly Bond and Michael Elwyn. There are classics from fellow journalists, poems by SEAMUS HEANEY and Edward Thomas, and there's some nonsense too from Lewis Carroll and the Marx Brothers.... |
| Words And Music | ...Music includes Webern's arrangement of Bach's A Musical Offering, songs by Dowland and Schubert and SEAMUS HEANEY's reading of The Given Note accompanied by piper Liam O'Flynn.... |
| World Music | ...David Hammond explores the place of the flute in traditional Irish music. SEAMUS HEANEY has declared that its best players `conjugate it joyfully in all its moods and tenses'.... |
| Write Stuff, The | ...SEAMUS HEANEY... |