/lit/ - Literature

>>2732993
>>2732993

Unfortunately not - he's almost certainly the most succesful living poet, and he actually can make money from poetry, (that Nobel Prize award goes a long way as well). That's why he's always grinning his napper off.

You are now aware that Seamus Heaney is a fan of Eminem.

>>2696923

>>2414396

Seconding John Cooper Clark, adding John Hegley and also Simon Armitage.

Seamus Heaney and Pablo Neruda are the two poets I find most inspirational - they're dedicated craftsmen, and supreme technicians, and their work just hums because they're so prolific they can't help themselves.

1. English Literature
2. Books and chicks
3. Books and chicks

mfw

>>1534779

Coincidentally enough, I was reading London Rain earlier - I'd forgotten how much I like MacNeice:

The rain of London pimples
The ebony street with whte
And the neon-lamps of London
Stain the canals of night
And the park becomes a jungle
In the alchemy of night

I love the image of the rain "pimpling" the streets. I think he manages to mix formalism and naturalism and an urban romanticism that is pretty unique. I haven't read as much of his work as I'd like to have though...