The Poems of Seamus Heaney
$74.14
- Hardcover
1296 pages
- Release Date
17 November 2025
Summary
This definitive collection of Seamus Heaney’s poetry, published in a single volume for the first time, gives us the full arc of the Nobel laureate’s long and varied career.
Seamus Heaney’s voice is like no other–“by turns mythological and journalistic, rural and sophisticated, reminiscent and impatient, stern and yielding, curt and expansive” (Helen Vendler). Published in a single volume for the first time, the collected poems of Heaney is a testament to that unforget…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780374235239 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0374235236 |
| Author: | Seamus Heaney, Bernard O'Donoghue, Rosie Lavan, Matthew Hollis |
| Publisher: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Imprint: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 1296 |
| Release Date: | 17 November 2025 |
| Weight: | 1.29kg |
| Dimensions: | 64mm x 165mm x 236mm |
Critics Review
“Seamus Heaney’s genius included a gift for dealing with binary conflicts, large-scale or personal or some of each. The fire of his ambition as an artist was balanced by a cool sense of absurdity, with flashes of gentle self-mockery. ” –Robert Pinsky, New York Times Book Review
“Heaney was a visionary bulwark against small-mindedness… . The Poems of Seamus Heaney opens up the story of a great poet’s development while preserving his best work as it was originally published. My gratitude to Heaney matches my thanks to his editors and his family, who have hatched this extraordinary book.” –David Mason, The Wall Street Journal
“We urgently need Heaney’s moral clarity and profound nuance, his capacity to embody the earthiness of the Earth in words, his bottomless knowledge of the history of language, which connects us across the ages like a mycelial network. This is one of the books of our time.” – Craig Morgan Teicher, NPR
Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. His poems, plays, translations, and essays include Opened Ground, Electric Light, Beowulf, The Spirit Level, District and Circle, and Finders Keepers. Robert Lowell praised Heaney as the “most important Irish poet since Yeats.”
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