Seamus Heaney I Collected Poems

by Seamus Heaney

Recorded in 2009, Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney reads his first eleven collections of poems in their entirety. In this new edition Faber has added live readings by the poet of eleven poems from his final collection, Human Chain (2010), to complete the collection.

Genres: Poetry

Audio CD

Published September 19, 2019

About the author

Works of Irish poet Seamus Justin Heaney reflect landscape, culture, and political crises of his homeland and include the collections Wintering Out (1972) and Field Work (1979) as well as a translation of Beowulf (1999). He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1995.

This writer and lecturer won this prize "for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past."

Heaney on Wikipedia.

Reviews

[Michael · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent.

[hawk · Rating 5 out of 5]

really enjoyed this collection of 4 earlier collections of poetry, read by the author.