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David Harsent, who recently won the Griffin International Poetry Prize for his tenth collection, Night, discusses and reads from the work of Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney.

This event is part of 'Portraits of Writers', a series of talks in collaboration with the National Portrait Gallery, to coincide with the exhibition 'On Paper: Portraits of Writers', which will run in the Gallery until February 2013.

You may also be interested in other talks in the series, including A.S. Byatt in conversation with Philip Hensher, and Margaret Drabble speaking about Doris Lessing. 

Seamus Heaney photographed by John Minihan