This poet described a "glossy purple clot" and how "each year I hoped they'd keep, knew they would not" in a poem about youthful blackberry-picking.
This poet described a "glossy purple clot" and how "each year I hoped they'd keep, knew they would not" in a poem about youthful blackberry-picking. In another of his poems, the speaker comes home to see Big Jim Evans consoling a man who is described "[cutting] more turf in a day / than any other man on Toner's bog" and "could handle a spade" in another poem. This man wrote about "a four-foot box, a foot for every year" in a poem on the death of his brother, "Mid-Term Break," and noted how "the squat pen rests" between his fingers "Digging." For 10 points, name this late Irish Nobel Laureate of the collection Death of a Naturalist, who translated Beowulf.
This poet described a "glossy purple clot" and how "each year I hoped they'd keep, knew they would not" in a poem about youthful blackberry-picking.
Seamus Heaney