RESCHEDULED Heaney: A Style Guide — with Don Paterson
Sat 23 May
|Webinar
In this webinar, Don Paterson will offer a two-hour deep dive into Seamus Heaney’s distinctive style, looking at the many unusual and often idiosyncratic techniques of which it was composed.
Time & Location
23 May 2026, 11:00 – 13:00 BST
Webinar
About the event
RESCHEDULED from 9th May. You DO NOT need to purchase a new ticket if you bought one for the original webinar. Please check your email for joining instructions.
This two-hour webinar offers an in-depth look at the notoriously inimitable style of Seamus Heaney, arguably the greatest English-language poet of the last fifty years. Though a Heaney poem will often read as a seamless whole, it is shaped by a set of favoured strategies, techniques and stylistic habits that operate in concert. Many of these are not unique to Heaney; others are far more idiosyncratic, and allow us a valuable window into his thinking and creative process. By identifying his characteristic approaches to closure, metaphor, syntax, POV, sound, lineation, and symbol, we can also begin to adapt aspects of his practice in our own writing.
The class will also show us how Heaney conceived of ‘the poem’, and how his…
Schedule
1 hourRESCHEDULED - Heaney: A Style Guide
Tickets
General Admission
£35.00
+£0.88 ticket service fee
Concession
If you can’t afford the full workshop/webinar fee, just pay the concessionary rate. If you can afford the full fee, please pay it, as it will allow us to offer completely free places in the future.
£25.00
+£0.63 ticket service fee
Total
£0.00