The first anniversary of the death of Seamus Heaney on 30 August 2013 will be marked by a festival of poetry, writing and culture in his home area, the Irish News has reported. Celebrating Seamus Heaney on Home Ground will run from 11-14 September in Magherafelt, Co Derry. A spokeswoman for the Northern Ireland Tourist Board, Ruth Burns, said the festival, at Laurel Villa in Magherafelt, would celebrate Heaney's life and times and bring "a unique and inspiring collection of writers, poets, artists and friends of the author together to celebrate his writing in his homeland of Magherafelt". It will include poetry readings, films, children's workshops and tours of the countryside which inspired much of the poet's work. In addition, an interpretative centre based on Heaney's work is to be built in his native Bellaghy.

Heaney’s publisher, Faber & Faber, will be bringing out a new edition of his poetry, New Selected Poems 1988-2013, later this year. Shortly before his death, Heaney discussed a companion volume to his New Selected Poems 1966-1987 aimed at presenting the second half of his career, and left behind selections that have been followed, reprinting his chosen poems from his later years, beginning with Seeing Things (1991), his two Whitbread Books of the Year, The Spirit Level (1996) and Beowulf (1999), and his multi-nominated, prize-winning volumes, Electric Light (2001), District and Circle (2006) and Human Chain (2010).