Have you read the latest edition of our newsletter dedicated to our upcoming exhibition, "Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again"? Find reflections from our exhibition designers and be in with a chance to win passes to a special advance visit to the exhibition: https://t.co/RpdwHAspJI.

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They’ve taken the skeleton
Of the Great Irish Elk
Out of the peat, set it up,
An astounding crate full of air.

painting by

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My new scanner gets into all the lovely detail of my old transparencies.
This is Niamh of the Golden Hair from Names Upon The Harp by Marie Heaney.

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My room is a musty attic,
But it’s little window
Let’s in the stars.

Heaney (1936)

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Balor from The Names Upon The Harp by Marie Heaney, &

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Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

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Portrait of poet Seamus Heaney, acrylics on canvas, July 2017

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