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Seamus Heaney 1939-2013

August 30th 2013    Category: General

The world-renowned poet Seamus Heaney has died aged 74.

Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995 and was presented with the Wilfred Owen Poetry Award in Shrewsbury in 2000.

BBC news has published an obituary (30 August 2013):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13930435

An obituary will also be printed in the next issue of the Wilfred Owen Association Journal.

 

 

 

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