heaney and beyond

I’m in the current London Review of Books on Seamus Heaney’s giant book of interviews with the thoughtful Irish poet Dennis O’Driscoll. You can’t read my piece online unless you subscribe to the print LRB– but maybe you subscribe to the print LRB (we do)!

One of the minor discoveries in the interviews (there are larger-scale discoveries too) involves a moment, described in Heaney’s poem “The Flight Path,” when Heaney encountered a Sinn Fein spokesperson on a train: the spokesperson has now said H