<p>This is the second episode of the Nature, Wilderness and Wildness series of the podcast.</p><p>Seamus Heaney, who died in 2013, was one of Ireland&#39;s most celebrated and most loved poets, and the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996.</p><p>He grew up on a farm in County Derry, Northern Ireland, and the landscape of his childhood—its bogs, fields, and rural rhythms—saturated his work throughout his life. </p><p>&quot;Death of a Naturalist&quot; is the title poem from his first collection, published in 1966 when Heaney was just 27 years old.</p><p><a href="https://seamusheaneyhome.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">⁠Find out more about Seamus Heaney&#39;s life and work here.⁠</a></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Naturalist-Poetry-Seamus-Heaney/dp/0571230830" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">You can buy the collection &quot;Death of a Naturalist&quot; from Amazon.co.uk here.</a></p><p><strong>Announcing Strong Words</strong></p><p>Shane’s new professional service is Strong Words, which helps businesses, organizations and leaders all around the world find the right words to communicate their mission, their vision, and their impact.</p><p><a href="https://strongwords.ie/">⁠Find out more about Strong Words⁠</a></p><p><strong>Ratings and reviews</strong></p><p>I’d love to hear what you think of this episode. You can leave a comment below.</p><p>If you like the show, we would be so grateful for your rating or review. For one thing, it’s a great way to tell the various platforms that it’s worth showing the podcast to new people.</p><p>If you’re not yet a subscriber on Spotify, please seek out the “Follow” button on the <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/15wJ71x4MHqQZH7YucOlvD">⁠“Poems for the Speed of Life” show page⁠</a> in your Spotify app. You can also leave the show a rating by tapping the stars.</p><p><strong>Music credit</strong></p><p>MANTRon by Alex-Productions | https://onsound.eu/ Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ Creative Commons CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/</p><p><br></p><p></p>