Author: Seamus Heaney
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: poems, circle, district
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2007-04-03
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0374530815
ISBN-13: 9780374530815

District and Circle inhabits the eerie new conditions of a menaced twenty-first century. In their haunted, almost visionary clarity, the poems assay the weight and worth of what has been held in the hand and in the memory. Scenes from a childhood spent far from the horrors of World War II are colored by a strongly contemporary sense that “Anything can happen,” and other images from the dangerous present—a fireman’s helmet, a journey on the Underground, a melting glacier—are fraught with this same anxiety. But the volume, which includes some “found prose” poems and translations, o

Author: Seamus Heaney
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: poems, light, electric
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2002-04-03
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0374528411
ISBN-13: 9780374528416

The powerful collection by the bestselling translator of BeowulfIn the finland of perch, the fenland of alder, on airThat is water, on carpets of Bann stream, on holdIn the everything flows and steady go of the world.--from "Perch"Seamus Heaney’s collection travels widely in time and space, visiting the sites of the classical world and revisiting the poet’s childhood: rural electrification and the light of ancient evenings are reconciled within the orbit of a single lifetime. This is a book about origins (not least, the origins of words) and oracles: the places where things start f

Author: Seamus Heaney
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: island, station
Number of Pages: 124
Published: 1986-01-01
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0374519358
ISBN-13: 9780374519353

The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with ’the growth of a poet’s mind’. The long poem is preceded by a section of shorter lyrics and leads into a third group of poems in which the poet’s voice is at one with the voice of the legendary mad King Sweeney.’Surpasses even what one might reasonably expect from this magnificently gifted poet.’ John Carey, Sunday Times

Author: Seamus Heaney
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: poems, level, spirit
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 1997-04-10
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0374525110
ISBN-13: 9780374525118

The Spirit Level was the first book of poems Heaney published after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. Reviewing this book in The New York Times Book Review, Richard Tillinghast noted that Heaney "has been and is here for good . . . [His poems] will last. Anyone who reads poetry has reason to rejoice at living in the age when Seamus Heaney is writing."

Author: Seamus Heaney
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: poetry, redress
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1996-10-30
List price: $21.00
ISBN-10: 0374524882
ISBN-13: 9780374524883

Seamus Heaney defines the title of this work of criticism as follows: "To redress poetry is to know and celebrate it for its forcibleness as itself . . . not only as a matter of profferd argument and edifying content but as a matter of angelic potential, a motion of the soul." Throughout this collection, Heaney’s insight and eloquence are themselves of a poetic order.

Author: Seamus Heaney
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: prose, selected, keepers, finders
Number of Pages: 452
Published: 2003-04-16
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0374528780
ISBN-13: 9780374528782

A selection of the best of three decades of writing about poetry, a celebration of the “tenacious curiosity” (Los Angeles Times) of the Nobel laureateWhether autobiographical, topical, or specifically literary, these writings circle the central preoccupying questions of Seamus Heaney’s career: “How should a poet properly live and write? What is his relationship to his own voice, his own place, his literary heritage, and the contemporary world?”Along with a selection from Heaney’s three previous collections of prose (Preoccupations, The Government of the Tongue, and The Redress of P

Authors:Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney,
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Keywords: poetry, anthology, rattle
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 2005-03-17
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0571225837
ISBN-13: 9780571225835

The Rattle Bag is an anthology of poetry (mostly in English but occasionally in translation) for general readers and students of all ages and backgrounds. These poems have been selected by the simple yet telling criteria that they are the personal favorites of the editors, themselves two of contemporary literature’s leading poets.Moreover, Heaney and Hughes have elected to list their favorites not by theme or by author but simply by title (or by first line, when no title is given). As they explain in their Introduction: "We hope that our decision to impose an arbitrary alphabetical order