Diane Von Famous Seamus

On the left, a Faber & Faber paperback of Seamus Heaney's second book of poetry, Door into the Dark, published in 1969. On the right, a look from Diane Von Furstenberg's Fall 2010 RTW collection. Detail of the hat, which is like an anvil but made of flowers and netting.

Last April 13 marked the 70th birthday of Ireland's fourth poet laureate, Famous Seamus. Listen to his birthday address before RTE here (skip to minute mark 2:45 to get past the intro). If you can't get enough of his malty Irish voice, stop here to order a boxed set of 15 CDs of the poet reciting almost all of his ouevre—enough to fill the hours on an airplane spent traveling from Washington to Dublin and back to Washington again.