![]() ![]() All of his work, in my opinion, is amazing but I recommend ‘ Open Ground‘. If you ever get your hands on his translation of ‘ Beowulf‘ I highly recommend reading it. His death was a great loss to the literary community. That all the lovely canfuls smelt of rot.Įach year I hoped they’d keep, knew they would not.įrom Heaney’s Death of a Naturalist (1966)Īnyone who knows me knows Heaney is my all time favourite poet and a fellow Norn Irish human. The fruit fermented, the sweet flesh would turn sour. We hoarded the fresh berries in the byre.īut when the bath was filled we found a fur,Ī rat-grey fungus, glutting on our cache. With thorn pricks, our palms sticky as Bluebeard’s. With green ones, and on top big dark blobs burned Until the tinkling bottom had been covered We trekked and picked until the cans were full, ![]() Round hayfields, cornfields and potato-drills Where briars scratched and wet grass bleached our boots. Sent us out with milk cans, pea tins, jam-pots ![]() Leaving stains upon the tongue and lust for Like thickened wine: summer’s blood was in it You ate that first one and its flesh was sweet ![]() For a full week, the blackberries would ripen.Īmong others, red, green, hard as a knot. ![]()
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