• EP03 - When the Sweet Turns Sour | Heaney, “Blackberry Picking”

  • May 25 2021
  • Length: 58 mins
  • Podcast

EP03 - When the Sweet Turns Sour | Heaney, “Blackberry Picking”

  • Summary

  • Seamus Heaney, “Blackberry-Picking.” Today we consider a lyric poem from Death of a Naturalist, Seamus Heaney’s first collection (1966). In “Blackberry-Picking” Heaney recounts a memory from his childhood, or perhaps from the beginning of his childhood’s end.

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