Now, in his first collection for five years, Mr Heaney seems to have come full circle.
ECONOMIST: The Irish poet's new collection is his best for years
There is no reek of nostalgia about it, no sense that Mr Heaney is repeating himself.
ECONOMIST: The Irish poet's new collection is his best for years
Among the post-1914 poets, it includes the likes of Yeats, Eliot, Lowell, Auden, Betjeman, Thomas and Heaney.
Auden, Wallace Stevens and Seamus Heaney and the novels of Raymond Carver, Robert Louis Stevenson and J.
"If this were a patentable drug you would see tremendous push and hype on this, " says Creighton's Heaney.
Check out the very readable new verse translation of Beowulf from Seamus Heaney, the Irish poet and Nobel laureate.
Hughes' friend and poet Seamus Heaney and actress Juliet Stevenson will give readings at the event on 6 December.
Heaney had spearheaded the campaign for Hughes to be remembered in Poets' Corner.
At its height, says Andrew Heaney of Spectrum, a consultancy, telecoms operators built seven years'-worth of capacity in a single year.
Northern Ireland poet Seamus Heaney has pipped children's hero Harry Potter to win his second Whitbread Book of the Year award.
Karl Armstrong, 23, of Grange Close, Hyde, Tameside, and Kalvin Heaney, 22, of Newchurch Street, Rochdale, were both sentenced to six months in prison.
Mr Heaney has a very particular way with adjectives he often clots them together, so that the reader feels their dense and thickening presence.
ECONOMIST: The Irish poet's new collection is his best for years
The signatories included the Rev Michael Heaney, president of Churches Together in England, and Farooq Murad, secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Britain.
Hughes won in 1999 with Birthday Letters and 1998 with Tales From Ovid, while Heaney won the year before that with The Spirit Level.
Taking part will be several of the poetry world's leading lights, including Irish writer Seamus Heaney, New Zealand's Bill Manhire and former US poet laureate Kay Ryan.
In the poetry category, John Burnside's win comes after a prolonged period in which poets Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney dominated the Whitbread awards.
Burnside, 46, told BBC News Online he was "hugely honoured to follow Heaney and Hughes - two of the most important poets of the last century".
Previous winners include Ted Hughes, Duffy herself and Seamus Heaney.
Heaney's triumph comes four years after he scooped the same prize for The Spirit Level, and marks the fourth successive time the Book of the Year title has been awarded to poetry.
The event has attracted poets of all ages, continents and literary stature -- from Nobel Laureates Seamus Heaney (Ireland) and Wole Soyinka (Nigeria) to Poet Laureates Kay Ryan (U.S.) to Bill Manhire (New Zealand).
But David Heaney, of the Centre for Rural Health, said his impression was that "little progress" had been made on the issue of delivering out-of-hours services in rural areas over the past few years.
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