Film screening: ‘Seamus Heaney and the music of what happens’ by Adam Low
Seamus Heaney and the music of what happens
by Adam Low
Venue: The CHR’s Iyatsiba Lab, 66 Greatmore Street, Woodstock (enter via Regents Road).
Date: Wednesday 17 April
Time: 3:00pm
The Charlotte Maxeke-Mary Robinson Research Chair and the Documentary Film Programme of the CHR, will be screening 'Seamus Heaney and the music of what happens’ (88 minutes, Ireland, 2019) by Adam Low on Wednesday 17 April 2024, which will be followed by a QnA with the director.
Six years after his unexpected death in 2013, Seamus Heaney’s wife Marie and their three children talk intimately about their family life and read the poems he wrote for them. His surviving brothers remember their childhood and the shared experiences that inspired many of his finest poems. Heaney’s unique gifts as a poet and his personal response to the complexity and violence of The Troubles in Northern Ireland are discussed by poets Paul Muldoon and Michael Longley. His students in Harvard, Tracy K Smith (US Poet Laureate) and Kevin Young (poetry editor of The New Yorker) consider the worldwide resonances of his work.
The film conjures the people and landscapes of Heaney’s childhood through a bounty of film and audio archives featuring Heaney’s own voice and his powerful, inimitable poetry.
