Scaffolding by Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney reads Scaffolding “Masons, when they start upon a building, / Are careful to test out the scaffolding...” The late Seamus Heaney reads his poem “Scaffolding” on the occasion of his seventieth birthday in 2009. Tags: Seamus HeaneyreadingFaber & Faber2009in memoriam