While the Heaney children grew up with his work, by a quirk of the curriculum they didn’t study him at school. It was only when in the US for a semester that Catherine had the bizarre experience of having to answer an exam question about a poem written by her father about her grandmother.
Monday, July 16, 2018
Family man …
… Seamus Heaney’s family on life with the great poet: ‘He was always just Dad at home' | Books | The Guardian. (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)
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