"Seamus Heaney is an Irish poet. He wrote a lot about the land — he was a naturalist. A lot of it was about the landscape and nature and stuff. He has this great poem that I didn’t realize had such an effect on me until he died. It’s called “The Grauballe Man.” It’s part of a series of poems where he describes bog bodies. Those are, in places like Ireland or Norway, where you find a preserved human being from hundreds or thousands of years ago in bog. [...] He describes him [...] like a long, fluid version of a human with a face twisted in pain."
Hozier in an interview by radio.com
"Would bog people ever end up in one of your songs?"
Hozier: "Well yeah, a little bit. Not so much about bog people… There are some references, I think, in ’Run’ [...]"
From mtv news
"Seamus Heaney is an Irish poet. He wrote a lot about the land — he was a naturalist. A lot of it was about the landscape and nature and stuff. He has this great poem that I didn’t realize had such an effect on me until he died. It’s called “The Grauballe Man.” It’s part of a series of poems where he describes bog bodies. Those are, in places like Ireland or Norway, where you find a preserved human being from hundreds or thousands of years ago in bog. [...] He describes him [...] like a long, fluid version of a human with a face twisted in pain."
Hozier in an interview by radio.com
"Would bog people ever end up in one of your songs?" Hozier: "Well yeah, a little bit. Not so much about bog people… There are some references, I think, in ’Run’ [...]" From mtv news