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Poetry Breaks; Poetry Breaks I, Seamus Heaney
Part of New Television Workshop.
09/20/1992
Original Footage , reel 2
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- Series
- Poetry Breaks
- Program
- Poetry Breaks I, Seamus Heaney
- Series Description
2-5 minute filler programs with New England area writers reading their poetry. Poets include Martin Espada, Galway Kinnell, Sharon Olds. Series release date: 1988
- Program Description
Seamus Heaney introduces and reads his poems at a Harvard University library. The following poems were edited for broadcast and general distribution, and appear on the master tape with and without "Poetry Breaks" logo and copyright: “Sonnet III” “Blackberry-Picking” “Midterm Break” “Wedding Day” “Sonnet V” “The Railway Children” “A Kite for Michael and Christopher” “Song”
Multiple takes of these poems and the following appear on the source tapes of original footage: “Wishing Tree” “A Postcard from Iceland” “The Milk Factory” “The Guttural Muse” “Elegy for a Still Born Child” “Disappearing Island”
- Asset Type
Broadcast program
- Media Type
Video
- Subjects
- Poetry reading
- Oral interpretation of poetry
- Poetry
- Genres
- Performance in a Studio
- Topics
- Literature
- Creators
- Luchetti, Leita Hagemann (Producer)
- Contributors
- Heaney, Seamus, 1939- ()
- Citation
- Chicago: “Poetry Breaks; Poetry Breaks I, Seamus Heaney,” 09/20/1992, GBH Archives, accessed April 23, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_C1C53D62FCA740C8A68A0FCBB08931B6.
- MLA: “Poetry Breaks; Poetry Breaks I, Seamus Heaney.” 09/20/1992. GBH Archives. Web. April 23, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_C1C53D62FCA740C8A68A0FCBB08931B6>.
- APA: Poetry Breaks; Poetry Breaks I, Seamus Heaney. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_C1C53D62FCA740C8A68A0FCBB08931B6