Seamus Heaney: Selected Poems

An episode from 8/20/21: A collection of all the poems by Seamus Heaney I have read here over the past few months, spanning his entire career. Each of his collections of poetry can of course be purchased on their own, but nearly everything I read here can be found either in his career-spanning 100 Poems, or in the two volumes of his selected poetry: Selected Poems 1966-1987 and Selected Poems 1988-2013. 

Death of a Naturalist (1966)

• Follower
• Poem
• Personal Helicon

Door Into the Dark (1969)

• Dream
• The Forge
• Bogland

Wintering Out (1972)

• The Tollund Man
• Limbo
• First Calf

North (1975)

• Belderg
• Funeral Rites
• Bog Queen
• The Grauballe Man
• Punishment
• Strange Fruit
• Kinship

Field Work (1979)

• The Strand at Lough Beg
• from "Field Work"

Station Island (1984)

• The Railway Children
• VII from Station Island
• VIII from Station Island
• The Scribes

The Haw Lantern (1987)

• III from Clearances
• The Mud Vision

Seeing Things (1991)

• Seeing Things
• 1.1.87
• #2, #8 from Lightenings
• #15 from Settings
• #25, #27, #31, #32 from Crossings
• #40, #42, #45, #46 from Squarings

The Spirit Level (1996)

• The Strand
• Postscript

District & Circle (2006)

• A Shiver
• #1 from "District & Circle"
• A Hagging Match

Human Chain (2010)

• Uncoupled
• Miracle
• from "Colum Cille Cecinit"
• from Hermit Songs
• from In the Attic

from Heaney's translation of Beowulf

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