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Chapters (104)
  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Notice
  3. Family Note
  4. Digging
  5. Death of a Naturalist
  6. Blackberry-Picking
  7. Follower
  8. Mid-Term Break
  9. The Diviner
  10. Twice Shy
  11. Scaffolding
  12. Personal Helicon
  13. The Forge
  14. The Peninsula
  15. Requiem for the Croppies
  16. Night Drive
  17. The Given Note
  18. Bogland
  19. Anahorish
  20. Broagh
  21. The Other Side
  22. The Tollund Man
  23. Wedding Day
  24. Westering
  25. Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication
  26. 2. The Seed Cutters
  27. Funeral Rites
  28. The Grauballe Man
  29. Punishment
  30. from Whatever You Say Say Nothing
  31. from Singing School
  32. 2. A Constable Calls
  33. 4. Summer 1969
  34. 6. Exposure
  35. Oysters
  36. A Drink of Water
  37. The Strand at Lough Beg
  38. Casualty
  39. The Singer’s House
  40. Elegy
  41. from Glanmore Sonnets
  42. The Otter
  43. The Skunk
  44. Song
  45. The Harvest Bow
  46. In Memoriam Francis Ledwidge
  47. The Underground
  48. A Hazel Stick for Catherine Ann
  49. A Kite for Michael and Christopher
  50. The Railway Children
  51. from Station Island
  52. Alphabets
  53. The Haw Lantern
  54. From the Republic of Conscience
  55. The Stone Verdict
  56. from Clearances
  57. The Wishing Tree
  58. from The Cure at Troy
  59. Markings
  60. Seeing Things
  61. 1. I. 87
  62. Field of Vision
  63. from Glanmore Revisited
  64. A Pillowed Head
  65. Fosterling
  66. from Lightenings
  67. from Crossings
  68. The Rain Stick
  69. A Sofa in the Forties
  70. Keeping Going
  71. Two Lorries
  72. St Kevin and the Blackbird
  73. The Gravel Walks
  74. A Call
  75. A Dog Was Crying Tonight in Wicklow Also
  76. At the Wellhead
  77. At Banagher
  78. Postscript
  79. from Out of the Bag
  80. The Clothes Shrine
  81. from Sonnets from Hellas
  82. Anahorish 1944
  83. Anything Can Happen
  84. Helmet
  85. District and Circle
  86. Midnight Anvil
  87. The Lift
  88. Höfn
  89. Tate’s Avenue
  90. The Blackbird of Glanmore
  91. ‘Had I not been awake’
  92. The Conway Stewart
  93. Chanson d’Aventure
  94. Miracle
  95. Human Chain
  96. from Route 110
  97. ‘The door was open and the house was dark’
  98. In the Attic
  99. A Kite for Aibhín
  100. In Time
  101. Index
  102. Also by Seamus Heaney
  103. A Note About the Author
  104. Newsletter Sign-up

The School Bag (with Ted Hughes)

PROSE

Preoccupations: Selected Prose 1968–1978

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

A Note About the Author

Seamus Heaney (1939–2013) was born in Northern Ireland. Death of a Naturalist, his first collection of poems, appeared in 1966 and was followed by numerous volumes of poetry, plays, criticism, and translation, establishing him as one of the leading English-language poets of his generation. In 1995 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. His translation of Virgil’s Aeneid Book VI was published posthumously in 2016 to great critical acclaim. You can sign up for email updates here.

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