Faber & Faber

Widely regarded as the finest poet of his generation, Seamus Heaney is the subject of numerous studies - but no book-length portrait has appeared until now.

To mark the publication of Stepping Stones, Dennis O’Driscoll’s interviews with Seamus Heaney, Faber presents a special London event at the Wyndham’s Theatre featuring Seamus Heaney and Dennis O’Driscoll in conversation with Mark Lawson about Heaney’s life and work. The event will open and close with Heaney reading from his work.

The event will be recorded for Front Row on BBC Radio 4 and signed copies of Stepping Stones will be available for purchase.

Monday 10 November at 7pm

Prices: £12, £10, £8 [book here]

Wyndham's Theatre
Charing Cross Road
London
WC2H ODA

About Stepping Stones:

Through his own lively and eloquent reminiscences, Stepping Stones retraces the poet's steps from his early works, through to his receipt of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature and his post-Nobel life. It is supplemented with a large number of photographs, many from the Heaney family album and published here for the first time.

In response to firm but subtle questioning from Dennis O'Driscoll, Seamus Heaney sheds a personal light on his work (poems, essays, translations, plays) and on the artistic and ethical challenges he faced, providing an original, diverting and absorbing store of reflections, opinions and recollections.