Digging, 3
District and Circle, 144
Diviner, The, 10
Dog Was Crying Tonight in Wicklow Also, A, 129
‘Dogger, Rockall, Malin, Irish Sea’, 69
Drink of Water, A, 56
Elegy, 165
‘Everything flows. Even a solid man’, 114
Exposure, 53
Field of Vision, 108
Follower, 8
Forge, The, 15
Fosterling, 112
From the Republic of Conscience, 94
Funeral Rites, 35
Given Note, The, 19
Glanmore Revisited (from), 109
Glanmore Sonnets (from), 68
Grauballe Man, The, 39
Gravel Walks, The, 126
‘Had I not been awake’, 155
Harvest Bow, The, 74
Haw Lantern, The, 93
Hazel Stick for Catherine Ann, A, 79
Helmet, 143
Höfn, 151
Human Chain, 161
‘I had come to the edge of the water’, 83
In Memoriam Francis Ledwidge, 76
In the Attic, 166
‘In the last minutes he said more to her’, 98
In Time, 169
Into Arcadia, 140
Keeping Going, 119
Kite for Aibhín, A, 168
Kite for Michael and Christopher, A, 81
Lift, The, 149
‘Like a convalescent, I took the hand’, 87
Markings, 102
Mid-Term Break, 9
Midnight Anvil, 147
Ministry of Fear, The, 46
Miracle, 160
Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication, 32
Night Drive, 18
1. I. 87, 107
Other Side, The, 24
Otter, The, 70
Out of the Bag (from), 136
Oysters, 55
Peninsula, The, 16
Personal Helicon, 14
Pillowed Head, A, 110
Postscript, 135
Punishment, 41
Railway Children, The, 82
Rain Stick, The, 115
Requiem for the Croppies, 17
Route 110 (from), 162
St Kevin and the Blackbird, 124
Scaffolding, 13
Seed Cutters, The, 34
Seeing Things, 104
‘Sensings, mountings from the hiding places’, 68
Singer’s House, The, 63
Singing School (from), 46
Skunk, The, 72
Skylight, The, 109
Sofa in the Forties, A, 116
Song, 73
Sonnets from Hellas (from), 140
Station Island (from), 83
Stone Verdict, The, 96
Summer 1969, 51
Sunlight, 32
Tate’s Avenue, 152
‘The annals say: when the monks of Clonmacnoise’, 113
‘The door was open and the house was dark’, 165
Tollund Man, The, 27
Twice Shy, 11
Two Lorries, 122
Underground, The, 78
Wedding Day, 29
Westering, 30
Whatever You Say Say Nothing (from), 43
‘When all the others were away at Mass’, 97
Wishing Tree, The, 99
About the Author
Seamus Heaney was born in County Derry in Northern Ireland. Death of a Naturalist, his first collection of poems, appeared in 1966, and was followed by poetry, criticism and translations which established him as the leading poet of his generation. In 1995 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, and twice won the Whitbread Book of the Year, for The Spirit Level (1996) and Beowulf (1999). Stepping Stones, a book of interviews conducted by Dennis O’Driscoll, appeared in 2008; Human Chain, his last volume of poems, was awarded the 2010 Forward Prize for Best Collection. He died in 2013. His translation of Virgil’s Aeneid Book VI was published posthumously in 2016 to critical acclaim.
By the Same Author
poetry
DEATH OF A NATURALIST
DOOR INTO THE DARK
WINTERING OUT
NORTH
FIELD WORK
SELECTED POEMS 1965–1975
STATION ISLAND
SWEENEY ASTRAY
SWEENEY’S FLIGHT
(with photographs by Rachel Giese)
THE HAW LANTERN
NEW SELECTED POEMS 1966–1987
SEEING THINGS
LAMENTS BY JAN KOCHANOWSKI
(translated with Stanisław Barańczak)
THE SPIRIT LEVEL
OPENED GROUND: POEMS 1966–1996
BEOWULF
DISTRICT AND CIRCLE
THE TESTAMENT OF CRESSEID & SEVEN FABLES
HUMAN CHAIN
NEW SELECTED POEMS 1988–2013
AENEID BOOK VI
THE RATTLE BAG
(edited with Ted Hughes)
THE SCHOOL BAG
(edited with Ted Hughes)
prose
PREOCCUPATIONS: SELECTED PROSE 1968–78
THE GOVERNMENT OF THE TONGUE
THE REDRESS OF POETRY: OXFORD LECTURES
FINDERS KEEPERS: SELECTED PROSE 1971–2001
STEPPING STONES
(with Dennis O’Driscoll)
plays
THE CURE AT TROY
THE BURIAL AT THEBES
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