New Releases by Seamus Heaney

A 17,000 word interview, with a career sketch, a comprehensive bibliography, and a representative list of quotations from Heaney''s critics and reviewers. Also included is Heaney''s poem, ''Known World''.

This volume gathers nearly all of the poems from Heaney''s first four collections: Death of a Naturalist (1966), Door into the Dark (1969), Wintering Out (1972), and North (1975).

Inspired by Seaaemus Heaney''s poems, and notably by the mediaeval Irish saga Buile Suibhne, the photographer Rachel Giese has produced a portfolio of pictures of the northern Irish landscape, covering the boundaries of Mad Sweeney''s original kingdom of Dal-Arie. She has recently followed the clues to topography and the natural world in Sweeney''s wanderings, and gathered together 40 photographs which Seamus Heaney has matched with extracts and quotations from his book Sweeney Astray. The whole of the text for Sweeney Astray is printed in the second section of this book.

A selection of poems by Irish poet Seamus Heaney, drawn from throughout the first twenty-one years of his career, from 1966 to 1987.

Heaney here scrutinizes the work of several poets, British and Irish, American and European, whose work he considers might call into question the rights of poetic utterance. The author asks whether the voice of the poet should be governed, or whether it should be the governor.

Poems from Heaney''s four collections that are no longer available in the United States: "Death of a naturalist" (1966), "Door into the dark" (1969), "Wintering out" (1972) and "North" (1975). Seven poems that appeared in the original edition of "Death of a naturalist" are not included in this volume.