SOURCE: An interview with Seamus Heaney, in The Literary Review, Vol. XXIX, No. 2, Winter, 1986, pp. 161-69.
In the following interview, Heaney discusses his writing habits, the origin of Sweeney Astray, and the work of other contemporary poets.
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