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Seamus Heaney recites 'Scaffolding' and other poems

2009

Speakers: Seamus Heaney

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Poet Seamus Heaney recites three of his own poems at the offices of his publisher Faber & Faber, to mark his seventieth birthday and his publisher's eightieth anniversary. He reads Scaffolding (1967), The Undergound (1984), and St Kevin and the Blackbird (1996).

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