A reading and commentary from interviews Seamus Heaney gave on the writing of his second book, Door into the Dark, taken from Dennis O'Driscoll's Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney.

The first five of Heaney's collections can be purchased here, and a good selection from the first half of his career can be found in Selected Poems 1966-1987.

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