Digging at 60: From the Archives
updated:
Tuesday, February 24, 2026 - 5:02pm
Seamus Heaney Centre, Queens University Belfast
deadline for submissions:
Monday, April 27, 2026
In 1966, Seamus Heaney published Death of a Naturalist, the collection that would launch his career and establish him firmly in the public eye as a poet of place whose local accents and autobiographical bent marked a new direction in twentieth century Irish poetry. In the same year, Heaney accepted a lectureship at his alma mater, Queen’s University Belfast, and made his first appearance on Ireland’s Late Late show, reading Blackberry Picking and gaining a mass audience thanks to the power of broadcast media.