Rhyming Mindfully: A Mindful Tour of Seamus Heaney’s Poetry

  • Free to visit

Wednesday, 5 November 2025 - Wednesday, 10 December 2025

Event times:

14:00 - 15:00

Event price:

€0.00

About this event

Give your self a moment of quiet and join us at Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again to discover poetry as a mindfulness technique on a special, mindful tour, finding peace through Heaney's words.

In the poem ‘Fosterling,’ Seamus Heaney wrote ‘me waiting until I was nearly fifty to credit marvels.’ It is easy to let life pass us by in a hurry with our day-to-day worries. Instead, Heaney asks us to stop and ‘listen now again’ to all the marvels that exist around us.

With summer coming to an end and the days starting to shorten, come and take a moment to slow down at Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again for a mindful tour, running every Wednesday at 2pm, where we will listen and feel the words of a poet whose works ‘exalt every day miracles and the living past,’ and have the chance to mindfully listen, breathe and even perhaps write your own mindful poem.