Seamus Heaney interview on his Life and Career + Poetry Reading (1991)

Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney has been judged by Robert Lowell to be the most important Irish poet since Yeats. Melvyn Bragg joins Heaney to look back over Heaneys career at the time his bestselling collection Seeing Thingsa return to the rural childhood territory of his very first bookwas published, offering a rare opportunity to hear the poet read and discuss his work. Through poems including Death of a Naturalist, The Toome Road, Wheels Within Wheels, The Strand at Lough Beg and Seeing Things