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Scaffolding by Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney reads Scaffolding

“Masons, when they start upon a building, / Are careful to test out the scaffolding...” The late Seamus Heaney reads his poem “Scaffolding” on the occasion of his seventieth birthday in 2009.

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Seamus Heaney
reading
Faber & Faber
2009
in memoriam

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