The Poet & The Piper is a studio album by poet
Seamus Heaney and piper
Liam O'Flynn, recorded in 2003 and released in the same year. The album is made up of instrumental tracks and spoken poetry, both often mixed together. The recording features traditional and contemporary music, lyrics and poetry such as An Bonnán Buí, one of the oldest known
Irish traditional songs. The album was used as a soundtrack for television programme Keeping Time broadcast on both
RTÉ and the
BBC.