For Seamus Heaney, Ireland's most renowned poet since Yeats, playwright and translator who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature, who claimed:
In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.
shooting after shooting,
what's the use of poetry
in daily life?
between finger and thumb my pen
tucked snug as a gun
Ribbons, 21:1, 2025
FYI: Listen to CBC's May 23, 2010 interview with Nobel Prize-winner Seamus Heaney on the place of politics in poetry.
