The word 'plash'

really pisses me off.

It's just 'splash', isn't it, with a silent S tacked on, to make it seem more onomatopoetical.

Auden, Heaney, Foulds... this is your gypsy's warning.

Hip-hop as poetry?

Jay-Z = Heaney. Discuss.

Famous Seamus' genius

It is because his poetry lets in associations that might seem irrelevant or undignified that it is so deeply human.

- John Carey, on Heaney's latest collection, Human Chain