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Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney’s first poetry collection, Death of a Naturalist, appeared forty years ago. Since then he has published poetry, criticism, and translations that have established him as one of the leading poets of his generation. In 1995 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Making It New

Children in Exile: Poems 1968––1984

by James Fenton

October 25, 1984 issue

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