John’s Substack
John O'DonoghueMy personal Substack
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Rite of Spring
First published as ‘Persephone’ in the Cambridge Review (4 June 1966), Rite of Spring is a poem comprising four tercets rhyming abb cdd eff ghg, which replays the Greek myth that tells how the changing seasons came to be, and the boundary b...
Birdwatcher
Birdwatcher
First published in Everyman, I (1968), Birdwatcher comprises two quatrains which rhyme abab. Interestingly, Heaney uses half-rhyme and para-rhyme in order to perhaps indicate that this is a poem in a minor key – we do not get t...
Aries
First published in Encounter, June 1966, Aries recalls Heaney’s Birthday on 13th April. In four quatrains of iambic pentameter rhyming abab Heaney salutes ‘The ram, my sign, wheels into his own now’. Heaney feels a kind of rebirth in this p...
Personal Helicon
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If Death of a Naturalist starts with a personal manifesto – I’m referring to Digging – it ends with a recapitulation of Heaney’s credo as a poet of the natural world, and how the pastoral has for him certain limitations. Personal Helicon...
Poem
Poem for Marie was first published in Northern Review I.2 in 1965 and is the first time Heaney expressly named his wife in the dedication of one of his poems. In four quatrains comprising lines in iambic pentameter rhyming abab cdcd Heaney...
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John O’Donoghue is the author of Brunch Poems (2009) and Fools & Mad (2014); Sectioned: A Life Interrupted (J2009); The King From Over The Water (The Wild Geese Press, 2019), and The Servants and Other Strange Stories (Tartarus Press, 2024).
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