Recorded June 22, 2019.

Actor Stephen Rea performed Seamus Heaney’s translation of Book VI of the Aeneid, Virgil’s epic poem written between 29 and 19 BC. The story follows Aeneas as he journeys into the underworld. Acknowledging the significance of Virgil’s poem to his writing, Heaney noted “there’s one Virgilian journey that has indeed been a constant presence, and that is Aeneas’s venture into the underworld. The motifs in Book VI have been in my head for years—the golden bough, Charon’s barge, the quest to meet the shade of the father.”

Accompanied by musician Neill Martin

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