New Selected Poems 1988 2013

Heaney, Seamus

£14.99

This selection of Seamus Heaney’s poetry 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.

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Publish Date: 15/10/2015
ISBN: 9780571321728 Category: Tag:

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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 the prospect of a companion volume to his landmark New Selected Poems 1966-1987 aimed at presenting the second half of his career, ‘from Seeing Things onwards’, as he foresaw it. Although he was unable to complete a edition/selection, he left behind selections that have been followed here. New Selected Poems 1988-2013 reprints the author’s chosen poems from his later years, beginning with his ground-breaking volume Seeing Things (1991), his two Whitbread Books of the Year, The Spirit Level (1996) and Beowulf (1999), and his multi-nominated, prize-winning volumes, Electric Light (2001), District and Circle (2006) and Human Chain (2010). The edition concludes with two posthumously published works.

Additional information

Weight 280 g
Dimensions 200 × 130 × 25 mm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

x, 222

Language

English

Edition

Main

Dewey

821.914 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K