August 1988 Issue [Readings] Song and suffering Download PDF Adjust Share by Seamus Heaney, This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers. Download PDF Tags 20th century Art and society Poetry Political poetry Social aspects More from Seamus Heaney Faxing Poetic From letters collected in The Letters of Seamus Heaney, which will be published in September by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Dear Loving Man, All this is spilling out like a… Horace and thunder An open letter Adjust Share