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Field Work: Faber Modern Classics by Seamus Heaney
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Seamus Heaney was 'the greatest poet of our age' (Guardian). From his remarkable debut in 1966, he pioneered the poetry of our times across five decades of cultural and political change, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. Field Work, his fifth volume, from 1979, is a collection of po ...Show more
Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971 - 2001 by Seamus Heaney
$27.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
A selection of the best of three decades of writing about poetry, a celebration of the "tenacious curiosity" (Los Angeles Times) of the Nobel laureate Whether autobiographical, topical, or specifically literary, these writings circle the central preoccupying questions of Seamus Heaney's career: "How sh ...Show more
Human Chain by Seamus Heaney
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Seamus Heaney's new collection elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now, inside an intently remembered present - the stepping stones of the day, the weight and heft of what is passed from hand to hand, lifted and lowered. "Human Chain" also broaches ...Show more
Human Chain by Seamus Heaney
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Seamus Heaney's new collection elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now, inside an intently remembered present - the stepping stones of the day, the weight and heft of what is passed from hand to hand, lifted and lowered. "Human Chain" also broaches ...Show more
New Selected Poems 1966-1987 by Seamus Heaney
$26.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
An updated selection of all Heaney's books, up to and including "The Haw Lantern", which was published in 1987. The book also includes selections from "Stations", prose poems of 1975 which have never appeared except as a pamphlet.
New Selected Poems 1988-2013 by Seamus Heaney
$32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
New Selected Poems 1988-2013 provides an unrivalled account of a period of work that was crowned by the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. Together with its earlier, sibling volume, it completes the arc of a remarkable career. Shortly before his death in 2013, Seamus Heaney discussed with his publisher ...Show more
New and Selected Poems by Seamus Heaney
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
"His is "close-up" poetry - close up to thought, to the world, to the emotions. Few writers at work today, in verse or fiction, can give the sense of rich, fecund, lived life that Heaney does." (John Banville). "More than any other poet since Wordsworth he can make us understand that the outside world i ...Show more
North by Seamus Heaney
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: good
With this collection, first published in 1975, Heaney located a myth which allowed him to articulate a vision of Ireland--its people, history, and landscape--and which gave his poems direction, cohesion, and cumulative power. In North, the Irish experience is refracted through images drawn from differen ...Show more
Opened Ground by Seamus Heaney
$35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser. | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
This volume is a much-needed new selection of Seamus Heaney's work, taking account of recent volumes and of the author's work as a translator, and offering a more generous choice from previous volumes. Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996 comes as close to being a 'Collected Poems' as its author cares to make ...Show more
Seamus Heaney: New Selected Poems 1988-2013 by Seamus Heaney
$39.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
New Selected Poems 1988-2013 provides an unrivalled account of a period of work that was crowned by the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. Together with its earlier, sibling volume, it completes the arc of a remarkable career. Shortly before his death in 2013, Seamus Heaney discussed with his publisher ...Show more
Seamus Heaney - The Spirit Level by Seamus Heaney
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
A collection of poems from the winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature. The poems discover the possibility of a new beginning in many subjects and circumstances. Private memories, classical scenes and humble domestic objects are endowed with talismanic significance and friends and relatives are in ...Show more