Book review: The Poems of Seamus Heaney, edited by Bernard O’Donoghue, Rosie Lavan, and Matthew Hollis

THE first word, “between”, in the first poem in Seamus Heaney’s first collection, Death of a Naturalist, hallmarked the writing that was to become his life, and the life that was his writing. The poem, “Digging”, begins: “Between my finger and my ...