Seamus Heaney

Seamus Justin Heaney (b. April 13 1939) is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer from County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995, he is one of the most widely known and important poets working in English, or perhaps any language, today.

Publications

A selection of Heaney's work.

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Poetry Collections

• Death of a Naturalist. (Faber & Faber, 1966)
• Door into the Dark. (Faber & Faber, 1969)
• Wintering Out. (Faber & Faber, 1972)
• Stations. (Ulsterman Publications, 1975)
• North. (Faber & Faber, 1975)
• Field Work. (Faber & Faber, 1979)
• Selected Poems 1965-1975. (Faber & Faber, 1980)
• Station Island. (Faber & Faber, 1984)
• The Haw Lantern. (Faber & Faber, 1987)
• New Selected Poems 1966-1987. (Faber & Faber, 1990)
• Seeing Things. (Faber & Faber, 1991)
• The Spirit Level. (Faber & Faber, 1996)
• Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996. (Faber & Faber, 1998)
• Electric Light. (Faber & Faber, 2001)

Translations

• Sweeney Astray. A version from the Irish. (Field Day, 1983)
• The Midnight Verdict. (Gallery Press, 1993)
• Beowulf. (Faber & Faber, 1999)

Essays

• Preoccupations: Selected Prose. 1968-1978. (Faber & Faber, 1980)
• The Government of the Tongue. (Faber & Faber, 1988)
• The Place of Writing. (Emory University, 1989)
• The Redress of Poetry: Oxford lectures. (Faber & Faber, 1995)
• Crediting Poetry: The Nobel Lecture. (Gallery Press, 1995)
• Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001. (Faber & Faber, 2002)

Plays

• The Cure at Troy. A version of Sophocles' Philoctetes. (Field Day, 1990)
• The Burial at Thebes. A version of Sophocles' Antigone. (Faber & Faber, 2004)

Critical works about Heaney

• A Collection of Critical Essays Ed. by Elmer Andrews. (1993)