Seamus Heaney Out of the Marvellous

A portrait of one of the greatest Englishlanguage poets of his generation this joyful and penetrating documentary was made with the late Seamus Heaneys unprecedented collaboration The film explores the key personal relationship in his life that with his wife Marie and follows him to Harvard New York and London to readings signings and public interviews Offering compelling insights into the working life of a major writer it digs deep into the rich store of Heaneys poetry to reveal a man who lived his life fully used his gifts to give expression to the great themes in all our lives of love loss and longing and managed as a man and as a writer to combine the simplicity of a farmers son from County Derry with the sophistication of a major artist