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Seamus Heaney’s Ribbons, read by Freya McClements

Freya McClements reads Ribbons by Seamus Heaney, one of several previously unpublished works selected by the poet’s family and published in a new book.


Poem extracted from The Poems of Seamus Heaney by Seamus Heaney, edited by Rosie Lavan and Bernard O’Donoghue with Matthew Hollis, which will be published by Faber & Faber on October 9th, 2025

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