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Seamus Heaney
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Poet Thomas Lynch looks to the work of the Irish poet and Nobel Prize-winner Seamus Heaney, whose death at the age of 74, was announced today. Lynch describes how Heaney's writing has nourished him and offers a warm appreciation of Heaney's poetic gifts.
First broadcast in May 2011.
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Fri 30 Aug 201322:45
BBC Radio 3
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