Seamus Heaney was an Irish poet, playwright, and translator. He was honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. KR was pleased to honor Heaney with the Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement in 2004.
Cultures of Creativity: The Centennial Celebration of the Nobel Prizes
Spring 2001
Desfina: An Chailleach Feasa
Cailleach: old woman, hag c. feasa: wise woman, fortune-teller Mount Parnassus placid on the skyline; Slieve na mBard, Knock Filíocht, Ben Duan. We gaelicized new names for Poetry Hill As […]
Poetry
Spring 2001
Castalian Spring
Thunderface. Not Zeus's ire, but hers Refusing entry, and mine mounting from it. This one thing I had vowed: to drink the waters Of the Castalian Spring, to arrogate That […]
Poetry
Winter 2001
A Dream of Solstice
The sun’s rays enter Newgrange—5000-year-old passage grave north of Dublin—on December 21 every year. A slot in the stone entrance, 70 feet away from the burial chamber at the core […]
Spring 2013
Castalian Spring
Thunderface. Not Zeus’s ire, but hers Refusing entry, and mine mounting from it. This one thing I had vowed: to drink the waters Of the Castalian Spring, to arrogate That […]