Offers a 15 CD box set of Seamus Heaney reading his 11 poetry collections, produced by Radio Telefis Eireann, the Irish national broadcasting corporation. This title includes "Death of a Naturalist", "Door Into The Dark", "Wintering Out", "North", "Fieldwork", "Station Island", "The Haw Lantern", "S[...]
In North Seamus Heaney found a myth which allowed him to articulate a vision of Ireland - its people, history and landscape. Here the Irish experience is refracted through images drawn from different parts of the Northern European experience, and the idea of the north allows the poet to contemplate[...]
A collection that 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. It also broaches questions of transm[...]
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 broa[...]
Seamus Heaney's new collection starts 'in an age of bare hands and cast iron' and ends 'as the automatic lock / clunks shut' in the eerie new conditions of a menaced twenty-first century. In their haunted, almost visionary clarity, the poems assay the weight and worth of what has been held in the ha[...]
When Seamus Heaney prepared Opened Ground it came as close to being a 'Collected Poems' as the author cared to make it. This edition draws from four decades of Seamus Heaney's verse, together with examples of his work as a translator, from his debut, Death of a Naturalist, to The Spirit Level, winne[...]
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. This title reprints the author's chosen poem[...]
New and Selected Poems: 1966-1987.
"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 wor[...]
Devised with the help of expert examiners and teachers, an easy-to-use literature study guide which aims to provide students with a better understanding and appreciation of the text. Also of interest to the general reader.[...]
Helen Vendler presents a concise assessment of the life and work of popular poet Seamus Heaney, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995.[...]
In this second edition of his popular volume on Heaney, Andrew Murphy offers an accessible and wide-ranging study of the poets work, charting the trajectory of Heaneys career and placing his work within its various contexts. Seamus Heaney is one of the foremost poets of his generation and his work i[...]
OPERATION MAYHEM is the first ever account of a truly epic elite forces mission: one of the most highly decorated in modern military history. Airlifted deep into the heart of the African jungle in the midst of a bloody civil war, twenty-six operators from the secret British unit X Platoon were sent [...]
"I've been single for my entire life. Not one boyfriend. Not one short-term dating situation. Not one person with whom I regularly hung out and kissed on the face."
So begins Katie Heaney's memoir of her years spent looking for love, but never quite finding it. By age 25, equipped with a college[...]
Seamus Heaney's engagement with medieval literature constitutes a significant body of work by a major poet that extends across four decades, including a landmark translation of Beowulf. This book, the first to look exclusively at this engagement, examines both Heaney's direct translations and his ad[...]
A remarkable survey of Heaney's work and its debt to medieval poetry. (...)McCarthy has presented a compelling analysis of Heaney's use of medieval poetry. THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW Seamus Heaney's engagement with medieval literature constitutes a significant body of work by a major poet that extends acr[...]
In the first decade of the new millennium, Jody Allen Randolph interviewed twenty-two leading Irish poets, artists, fiction writers and playwrights to create a record of how the makers of a culture saw their country as it moved into a new era. Her exploration was shadowed by intimations of unease; a[...]
Et udvalg af den store irske lyriker og Nobelpristagers bedste digte. Udvalgt og oversat af Annette Mester og Uffe Harder. 'I guder, hvor er det dog en oplevelse - af de sublime. Markarbejde bør være hjørnestenen i ethvert lyrikbibliotek.' - Politiken. 'Heaney hører til de pragtfulde ambitiøse,[...]
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