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Poets in Norfolk prison

Description: Inmates at Norfolk County House of Correction read their poetry. Prof. Elizabeth Barker of BU has run poetry readings within the prison for twenty years.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/05/1991

Seamus Heaney

Description: Poet Seamus Heaney reads excerpts from “Sweeney Astray," in Grolier Book Shop. No audio at the very end.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/28/1984

Seamus Heaney

Description: Poet Seamus Heaney readings his poems at Grolier Book Shop, with introductions to each poem, and banter before and in between readings. The poems read are, "Digging" "Follower" "What ever you say, say nothing" "Oysters" and "The Guttural Muse".
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/18/1982

Seamus Heaney

Description: SEAMUS HEANY READS HIS POEM 'A PEACOCK'S FEATHER'
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/07/1986

Seamus Heaney, Part 1

Description: Poet Seamus Heaney reads his work outside. Heaney and Christopher Lydon discuss which poems to read and how to film the reading. Heaney gives context to each poem before reading it. He reads 5 poems in memory of his mother, 1 poem in memory of the poet Robert Fitzgerald, and "A Peacock's Feather" written for his niece on her christening. He also reads "The Face of the Horse" by Nikolay Zabolotsky, translated by Danny Weisbord. reel 1 of 2.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/29/1986

Seamus Heaney, Part 1

Description: Poet Seamus Heaney reads from the anthology of Irish poetry he coedited. reel 1 of 3.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/24/1985

Seamus Heaney, Part 2

Description: Poet Seamus Heaney reads from the anthology of Irish poetry he coedited. reel 2 of 3.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/24/1985

Seamus Heaney, Part 2

Description: Poet Seamus Heaney reads his work. reel 2 of 2.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/29/1986

Seamus Heaney, Part 3

Description: Poet Seamus Heaney reads from the anthology of Irish poetry he coedited. reel 3 of 3.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/24/1985

TOCN show tape

Description: 1) Attorney general Frank Bellotti on trying to stop Seabrook full power operating license. 2) Interview with NH governor candidate Paul McEachern on Seabrook. 3) Public health commissioner Bailus Walker on studying incidence of cancers near nuclear power plants; testifies before House Ways and Means chair Richard Voke. 4) Jesse Jackson at State House urges access to higher education by keeping state college tuition affordable. 5) Interview with Dudley Herschbach, professor of chemistry at Harvard, after winning Nobel Prize. Likes teaching freshmen because it keeps him focused on fundamentals. Compares science to art and music because they "can change they way you look at things." He assigns poetry writing to his students and reads a sample on quantum mechanics. Anchor Lydon.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/26/1986