Several years ago I had the honour of speaking to acclaimed Irish poet Dennis O’Driscoll about the collaborative process he experienced while writing about his friend and one of Ireland's best loved poets Seamus Heaney. It was great sadness to discover the passing of Seamus Heaney, which was followed by the sad realisation that the past year has taken these two remarkable men from us; both I feel before their time.
It is my opinion that this book,
Stepping Stones, is an even
more powerful work now; a beautifully constructed tome exploring
Heaney's life, in his own words and the words of his fellow poet, and
friend, who knew him so well and spoke of him with such reverence. They
were both, in many ways, possessed by the language of poetry and it was
ever apparent here through this work.
