Words of praise

As news broke of the passing of poet and Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney yesterday, tributes were shared from around the world. Here are some of the many.

“He was a great, great poet, a dear friend, and I’m in shock...

“I was very pleased that a few months ago I was able to tell him that I’d been reading his early poems, the poems he wrote as a young man, and that they struck me as miracles. And he joked, he says, ‘well they came from Bellaghy, they’d have to have been miracles’.