Rhyming Mindfully | A Mindful Tour of Seamus Heaney’s Poetry
Posthumously published limited-edition book by Seamus Heaney, a translation of poems by the Italian poet Giovanni Pascoli, illustrated by Martin Gale.
'Let go, Let fly, Forget'
In the poem ‘Fosterling,’ Seamus Heaney wrote ‘me waiting until I was nearly fifty to credit marvels.’ It is easy to let life pass us by in a hurry with our day-to-day worries. Instead, Heaney asks us to stop and ‘listen now again’ to all the marvels that exist around us.
As summer comes to a close and the days start to shorten, come and take a moment to slow down at Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again for a mindful tour, running every Wednesday at 2pm, where we will listen and feel the words of a poet whose works ‘exalt every day miracles and the living past,’ and have the chance to mindfully listen, breathe and even perhaps write your own mindful poem.
If our team can be of any assistance, please contact us at heaneyexhibition@nli.ie
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