Longley and Heaney had attended some of the civil rights marches ... of prestigious awards for his work, including the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Prize. In 2001, he was awarded ...

and her poems are really wonderful. And it doesn’t hurt that Rosa Parks was given that congressional award just a few days ago. What a coincidence.” In “Claudette Colvin Goes to Work ...

His work reflects the relief he felt as civil war ended and the rule of Augustus ... His rural upbringing influenced all his poetry, especially his earlier work, like the “Eclogues”.