The impact of Seamus Heaney on the cultural landscape has been profound and far reaching. His sure footed voice has been an important record of our time and place, a tuning fork sending back signals from the place where language meets pure ideas. Hearing Heaney is a collection of responses to Heaney's vision and clarity of thought, expression, and ideals.

Asked to provide readings of Heaney's work, which involved for many a personal reflection on its impact on their work or life, this collection includes contributions from a diverse range of backgrounds: journalists, fellow poets, and academics.

Contents include: The Seamus Heaney Lecture Series:

• Beginnings
• Of Bogs, Bodies, and Sagas
• Reluctant Amoralist: Seamus Heaney's Physical World
• Between the Lines: The Writer's Heaney
• Seamus Heaney: Part of What We Are
• Crossing Borders: Heaney and the 'Ulster Thing'
• Punishment and the Costs of Knowledge
• Ireland's Fractal Futures: Heaney, Translation, and Mobility
• Learning from Heaney: The Poet and Arts Based Educational Research
• Words into Action: Re-hearing Antigone's Claim.