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Seamus Heaney: Out of the Marvellous

Documentary about the poet Seamus Heaney, exploring the importance of his personal relationships to his writing and relating works to the times of his life when they were written.

A portrait of one of the greatest English-language poets of his generation, this joyful and penetrating documentary was made with the late Seamus Heaney's unprecedented collaboration. The film explores the key personal relationship in his life, that with his wife Marie, and follows him to Harvard, New York and London, to readings, signings and public interviews.

Offering compelling insights into the working life of a major writer, it digs deep into the rich store of Heaney's poetry to reveal a man who lived his life fully; used his gifts to give expression to the great themes in all our lives of love, loss and longing; and managed, as a man and as a writer, to combine the simplicity of a farmer's son from County Derry with the sophistication of a major artist.

1 hour, 15 minutes

Last on

Wed 22 Jan 2014 23:00

Credits

Role Contributor
Director Charlie McCarthy
Producer Cliona Ni Bhuachalla

Broadcast

Obituary: Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney was internationally recognised as the greatest Irish poet since WB Yeats.