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The young poet

Seamus Heaney (standing fourth from left), in a school photograph at his old school outside Bellaghy in County Londonderry. The young poet. Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.

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The young poet

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  1. Seamus Heaney (standing fourth from left), in a school photograph at his old school outside Bellaghy in County Londonderry

  2. The young poet

  3. Between my finger and my thumbThe squat pen rests; snug as a gun.

  4. We want the poem to be not only pleasurably right but compellingly wise, not only a surprising variation playedupon the world, but a re-tuning of the world itself.

  5. Nobel Prize for Literature 1995

  6. In his study …

  7. With his wife Marie – still waters still running deep.

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