Sunday, September 1, 2013

Gavin Ewart on Seamus Heaney

A two-line poem by Gavin Ewart, one of my favourite poets, on another of my favourite poets, dead just now, shockingly early, at 74:
 SEAMUS HEANEY 
He’s very popular among his mates.
I think I’m Auden. He thinks he’s Yeats.
So here are The Band with “Too Soon Gone”, Rick Danko on heartbreaking vocals:


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2 comments:

  1. StephanieSeptember 3, 2013 at 9:42 PM

    OMG, I have to read a NZ blog to find out Seamus Heaney has died. Australia is a cultural wilderness. And it has been proved.

    Sorry to hear of the news. All the art is completed now. Sad.

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  2. Stephen StratfordSeptember 3, 2013 at 10:26 PM

    Isn't it awful to find out late. Bad enough with people one knows, but even with strangers one admires. And 74 doesn't seem so old these days.

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