Seamus Heaney

This installation is derived from the original 2014 exhibition at Emory University's Robert W. Woodruff Library. It was the first major exhibition to celebrate the life and work of late Irish poet and Nobel Prize-winner Seamus Heaney since his death. The exhibit at Oxford College Library features manuscripts, personal letters and photographs, and an old desk where Heaney wrote some of his celebrated poems. Among the evocative materials on display--most of them from the Heaney collection held by Rose--will be Heaney's poems and drafts showing his handwritten revisions, rare publications, and artists' books containing Heaney's poetry. The exhibit will also feature recordings of his poetry read by Heaney himself and by other poets, artists, and well-known figures.