16 May The video above is new this week on YouTube — make a poetry pilgrimage to the Seamus Heaney HomePlace.

And in keeping with the poetry theme on marlbank today also if you have a little time listen above to Blue-Eyed Hawk in their Seamus Heaney tribute, on the final track of Under the Moon and ‘Valediction’ where you will discover acclaimed award winning improvised music and jazz inspired singer Lauren Kinsella at her most natural. “Since you have left the house/Its emptiness has hurt”, the starkly touching refrain a choir of Heaneyian possibilities. Kinsella takes an experimental, more ethereal, route that’s very different to her fellow Irishwoman Christine Tobin, possibly Kinsella is closer in sensibility, if not sound, to Norma Winstone in the unpredictable excursions she takes the notes on the page to.