Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney
2008 book about Seamus Heaney
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Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney is Dennis O'Driscoll's book-length portrait of Seamus Heaney, recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. It has been described as the nearest thing in existence to an autobiography of Heaney.[1]
2009 paperback ed | |
| Author | Dennis O'Driscoll |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Faber and Faber |
| Publication date | 2008 |
| ISBN | 9780374269838 |
O'Driscoll, who died on Christmas Eve 2012, was a poet, a friend of Heaney's and a student of his poetry.[2] The book is full of their conversations on poetry, life and so on.[3] It was first published in 2008 by Faber and Faber (ISBN 9780374269838).
The book also features a number of photographs published for the first time.[4] Extracts have been used during school examinations.[5]
