Seamus Heaney Illustrated By Chytomo

The Ukrainian webpage Chytomo features some illustrations inspired by Seamus Heaney's poems. This, for example, is Heaney famously "digging" with his pen:

Between my finger and my thumb

The squat pen rests.

I'll dig with it.

I found a turf-spade

Hidden under bracken,

Laid flat, and overgrown

With a green fog.

(from "Kinship")

I lay waiting

Between turf-face and demesne wall,

Between Heathery levels

And glass-toothed stone.

My body was Braille

For the creeping influences:

Dawn suns groped over my head

And cooled at my feet[.]

(from "Bog Queen")

There we were in the vaulted tunnel running,

You in your going-away coat speeding ahead

And me, me then like a fleet god gaining

Upon you before you turned to a reed[.]

(from "The Underground")

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