Seeing Things

Blurb

Seeing Things is the ninth poetry collection by Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. It was published in 1991. Heaney draws inspiration from the visions of afterlife in Virgil and Dante Alighieri in order to come to terms with the death of his father, Patrick, in 1986. The title, Seeing Things, refers both to the solid, fluctuating world of objects and to a haunted, hallucinatory realm of the imagination. Heaney has been recorded reading this collection on the Seamus Heaney Collected Poems album.
The Golden Bough
PART I
The Journey Back
Markings
Three Drawings 1. The Point
Three Drawings 2. The Pulse
Three Drawings 3. A Haul
Casting and Gathering
Man and Boy
Seeing Things I
Seeing Things II
Seeing Things III
The Ash Plant
1.1.87
An August Night
Field of Vision
The Pitchfork
A Basket of Chestnuts
The Biretta
The Settle Bed
The Schoolbag
Glanmore Revisited 1. Scrabble
Glanmore Revisited 2. The Cot
Glanmore Revisited 3. Scene Shifts
Glanmore Revisited 4. 1973
Glanmore Revisited 5. Lustral Sonnet
Glanmore Revisited 6. Bedside Reading
Glanmore Revisited 7. The Skylight
A Pillowed Head
A Royal Prospect
A Retrospect
The Rescue
Wheels within Wheels