Crediting Poetry

About the lecture

In this course, Rosie discusses Heaney's Nobel Prize acceptance speech, which was entitled 'Crediting Poetry'. Rosie draws connections between the speech and his poem 'Fosterling' (1991), explores the concept of 'difference' in Heaney's thought, as well as the 'wideness of language'. Rosie finishes by exploring Heaney's thoughts on the role of the poet in society, especially against the background of the Troubles.

About the lecturer

After reading English at St Anne’s College, Oxford, Rosie trained as a journalist at City University, London. She worked on the business desk at The Times for two years, as a media assistant to a London MEP during the European elections in 2009, and for House of Lords Hansard. She returned to Oxford for postgraduate study in 2010 and completed her doctorate, ‘Seamus Heaney and Society, 1964 – 1994’, in 2014. She held stipendiary lectureships in English at St Hugh’s and St Anne’s Colleges in 2014-15, before joining the School of English at Trinity College, Dublin in September 2015.