Another poem by him describes finding frogs' eggs that "sat / Poised like mud grenades.
In one poem this author asserts "Never fear. We may let the scaffolds fall / Confident that we have built our wall." Another poem by him describes finding frogs' eggs that "sat / Poised like mud grenades." This poet reminisced about "hands peppered / With thorn pricks" and "palms sticky as Bluebeard's" and, in another poem, mentions his brother's burial in "a four-foot box, a foot for every year." This author of "Blackberry-Picking" and "Mid-Term Break" won a Whitbread Prize for his translation of a work partially set in King Hrothgar's Hall Herot. For 10 points, identify this Irish author of the collection Death of a Naturalist and a famed 1999 translation of Beowulf.
In one poem this author asserts "Never fear. We may let the scaffolds fall /
Seamus Justin Heaney