SEAMUS HEANEY - OPENED GROUND: SELECTED POEMS, 1966 - 1996

Image: bog man, Ireland.

These songs of soil I read on the fishing vessel where I work (in rough seas the spacing of poetry on the page is easier to read than prose). If anyone could inspire a person to dig a hole, it’s Seamus Heaney. When I’m at sea he brings the earth back under my feet. Read, October 2019.