Poem Guides
In ‘Casualty’ Seamus Heaney depicts the life and death of a fisherman. He describes this man as someone who would “drink by himself” and call again and again for more run and “blackcurrant”. The man had a history in the town and was known by everyone. This appeals to the speaker and makes him wish he’d gotten a chance to know him. Unfortunately for the fisherman, his habits cost him his life. He was a good man who was killed in an attack by the British Parachute Regiment in Derry. The poem concludes with the man’s funeral.
Seamus Heaney reads "Scaffolding."
Nobel prizewinner Seamus Heaney reading his poem Scaffolding at the Faber offices on the occasion of his seventieth birthday and Faber's eightieth.
SOURCE: Youtube, uploaded by Faber & Faber on 5 Jun 2009, URL: https://youtu.be/fNYBwF7lKLA
"St Kevin and the Blackbird," read by Seamus Heaney
SOURCE: YouTube, posted on 11 Dec 2013 by the W.B. Yeats Foundation, Duration: 3:15 mins, URL: https://youtu.be/muE0mj6y71s
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