Seamus Heaney, “Blackberry-Picking.”  Today we consider a lyric poem from Death of a Naturalist, Seamus Heaney’s first collection (1966).  In “Blackberry-Picking” Heaney recounts a memory from his childhood, or perhaps from the beginning of his childhood’s end.

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