Follower Resources

The Poetry Foundation has tons of Heaney info, poems, links, and awesome audio archives of Heaney's poems. It's a great place to start learning about his life and work.

There's more good Heaney info here.

Check out a smattering of readings from Heaney in the wake of his death.

PBS looks back at Heaney's life.

Poet Paul Muldoon talks after Heaney's funeral.

Listen to Heaney in conversation on poetry (what else) with Michael Laskey.

The Poetry Foundation lets you listen to a good chunk of Heaney poems read by the man himself.

Heaney wins the Nobel Prize of Literature in 1995. Hear his lecture here.

Here's what the horse drawn plow in the poem might have looked like.

Here's what the plow itself might have looked like.

Dig this Heaney headshot.

Here's handsome Heaney back in the day.

In an article for The Atlantic Monthly, Heaney discusses his predecessor, W.B. Yeats.

American poet, Henri Cole gets in depth, Barbara Walters style, in this interview with Heaney for Paris Review.

This collection ("Follower" is in here) put Heaney on the map.

While we wait with baited breath for the collected poems of Heaney to be published, we can get a good selection from Opened Ground.

The New York Review of Books gives links to several notable books of criticism on Heaney.

Check out this Heaney biographical flick.

Here's a gaggle of Irish grade schoolers in conversation with Heaney.