New Selected Poems 1966–1987

by Seamus Heaney

Blurb

New Selected Poems 1966–1987 is a poetry collection by Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. It was published in 1990 by Faber and Faber. It includes selections from each of Heaney's seven first volumes of verse:
Death of a Naturalist
Door into the Dark
Wintering Out
North
Field Work
Station Island
The Haw Lantern
It also includes several prose poems from Heaney's limited volume Stations, as well as excerpts from Sweeney Astray, Heaney's verse translation of the Irish legend Buile Shuibhne. The collection includes poems such as "The Haw Lantern", "Mid-Term Break", "Follower" and "Clearances".

First Published

1990

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