Go Poet Go - 001 - Writing about your father - Robert Hayden, Seamus Heaney

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04-07-2022 • 3 mins

Writing about your father.

Two different poets. One raised in Detroit, one raised in rural Ireland. Two very different places. Looking back at their father, here’s what the poet can see today.


Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden, 1962
Digging by Seamus Heaney, 1964