Discover the Boglands - Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again

Throughout Heaney's work, the bog has played a vital role in his poetic imagination. From his admiration of his father turf cutting in Digging, to his praise of bogs as Ireland's mythological landscape in Bogland, to the troubling portents of violence in The Tollund Man, the landscape has served as a metaphor for the changing times Heaney found himself in. Saturday 18 & 25 July 2026 | 11.30am - 12.30pm. Free, booking available. Readers are advised to check with the venue before relying on the details published here. Throughout Heaney's work, the bog has played a vital role in his poetic imagination. From his admiration of his father turf cutting in Digging, to his praise of bogs as Ireland's mythological landscape in Bogland, to the troubling portents of violence in The Tollund Man, the landscape has served as a metaphor for the changing times Heaney found himself in. Saturday 18 & 25 July 2026 | 11.30am - 12.30pm. Free, booking available. Readers are advised to check with the venue before relying on the details published here.