Karl Miller

Seamus Heaney’s letters confirm that he really was as nice as he seemed

14 October 2023 9:00 am

Seamus Heaney’s letters are full of energy and joie de vivre, but a darker note persists as the pressure of celebrity grows, says Roy Foster

Karl Miller called me his ‘great white hope’. I failed him, of course

11 October 2014 9:00 am

As I think I said in this column the other week, I used to sneak into English lectures at University…