Poetry Ireland Review Issue 113

Poetry Ireland Review Issue 113 :
A Seamus Heaney Special Issue

He was our best poet, by a country mile. Since Seamus Heaney’s death on 30 August last year, nothing about Irish poetry is, or can be, the same. When I was invited to take up the editorship at Poetry Ireland Review, I knew the first thing I’d want to do was to put together an issue dedicated to him. Being the person he was, many poets and friends and colleagues had already paid warm tribute to his gifts as a poet and as a man. Instead, I wanted to focus on the work, on the rich haul of extraordinary poems he has left in his wake – Vona Groarke.

The best-selling Seamus Heaney Special Issue is dedicated to the memory of the late Seamus Heaney and contains 46 poems by Seamus Heaney with essays on the poems from 50 distinguished poets.