This is the second episode of the Nature, Wilderness and Wildness series of the podcast.

Seamus Heaney, who died in 2013, was one of Ireland's most celebrated and most loved poets, and the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996.

He grew up on a farm in County Derry, Northern Ireland, and the landscape of his childhood—its bogs, fields, and rural rhythms—saturated his work throughout his life.

"Death of a Naturalist" is the title poem from his first collection, published in 1966 when Heaney was just 27 years old.

⁠Find out more about Seamus Heaney's life and work here.⁠

You can buy the collection "Death of a Naturalist" from Amazon.co.uk here.

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Music credit

MANTRon by Alex-Productions | https://onsound.eu/ Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ Creative Commons CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/