Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico, October 1, 2003.
Seamus Heaney’s poetry bears witness to Ireland’s complex, violent past and present, articulating the conflicts and tender mercies inherent in human experience. Heaney reads from a wide range of poems and offers easy context for the thoughts, feelings, and events behind his work, before joining in conversation with fellow poet and Irishman, Dennis O’Driscoll.
You may learn more about this event on the Lannan website.
Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico, October 1, 2003.
Seamus Heaney’s poetry bears witness to Ireland’s complex, violent past and present, articulating the conflicts and tender mercies inherent in human experience. Heaney reads from a wide range of poems and offers easy context for the thoughts, feelings, and events behind his work, before joining in conversation with fellow poet and Irishman, Dennis O’Driscoll.
You may learn more about this event on the Lannan website.
Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on May 28, 2003.
Dennis O’Driscoll, one of Ireland’s most widely published and respected critics of poetry, was born in County Tipperary, Ireland. A civil servant since the age of 16, he works for Irish Customs in Dublin.
He has published six collections of poetry, the most recent being Exemplary Damages. He has contributed to the Times Literary Supplement, Poetry, and the Harvard Review. O’Driscoll, who received a Lannan Literary Award for Poetry in 1999, was a featured author for Readings & Conversations in 2001 and 2003.
You may learn more about this event on the Lannan website.
Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on February 13, 2008.
Eamon Grennan has said, “As far as I’m concerned, poetry is about elegy. Every poem is a memory of some kind, a celebratory elegy. Poems are like shells. Something is gone and that’s why you write.” His volumes of poetry include So It Goes, Still Life with Waterfall, and his latest, The Quick of It. He writes in both the ancient tradition of mournful remembrance in attention to the natural world and the modern impulse to seize and preserve the moment. Grennan returns to his native Ireland yearly for “voice transfusions” from his home in New York, where he teaches at Vassar College.
You may learn more about this event on the Lannan website.
Additional photos from this event are available on Flickr.
Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on February 28, 2001.
Thomas Lynch is a poet and essayist whose books include The Undertaking, which was nominated for a National Book Award; Still Life in Milford; Skating with Heather Grace; and Bodies in Motion and at Rest.
Mr. Lynch lives in Milford, Michigan, where he works as a funeral director.
Dennis O’Driscoll, one of Ireland’s most widely published and respected critics of poetry, was born in County Tipperary, Ireland. A civil servant since the age of 16, he works for Irish Customs in Dublin.
He has published six collections of poetry, the most recent being Exemplary Damages. O’Driscoll, who received a Lannan Literary Award for Poetry in 1999, was a featured author for Readings & Conversations in 2001 and 2003.
You may learn more about this event on the Lannan website.
Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico, October 1, 2003.
Seamus Heaney’s poetry bears witness to Ireland’s complex, violent past and present, articulating the conflicts and tender mercies inherent in human experience. Heaney reads from a wide range of poems and offers easy context for the thoughts, feelings, and events behind his work, before joining in conversation with fellow poet and Irishman, Dennis O’Driscoll.
You may learn more about this event on the Lannan website.