New Selected Poems 1988-2013

Seamus Heaney

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Year: 2014
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9780571321735
• Subtopic: European Poetry
• Index: Literature

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Landing Page
• Title Page
• Publisher’s Note
• Epigraph
• Contents
• The Golden Bough
• Markings
• Man and Boy
• Seeing Things
• An August Night
• Field of Vision
• The Pitchfork
• The Settle Bed
• from Glanmore Revisited
• A Pillowed Head
• A Royal Prospect
• Wheels within Wheels
• Fosterling
• from Squarings
• The Rain Stick
• Mint
• A Sofa in the Forties
• Keeping Going
• Two Lorries
• Damson
• Weighing In
• St Kevin and the Blackbird
• from The Flight Path
• Mycenae Lookout
• The Gravel Walks
• Whitby-sur-Moyola
• ‘Poet’s Chair’
• The Swing
• Two Stick Drawings
• A Call
• The Errand
• A Dog Was Crying Tonight in Wicklow Also
• The Strand
• The Walk
• At the Wellhead
• At Banagher
• Tollund
• Postscript
• from Beowulf
• Perch
• Lupins
• from Out of the Bag
• The Little Canticles of Asturias
• Ballynahinch Lake
• The Clothes Shrine
• Glanmore Eclogue
• Sonnets from Hellas
• Vitruviana
• Audenesque
• To the Shade of Zbigniew Herbert
• Bodies and Souls
• from Electric Light
• A Shiver
• Anahorish 1944
• Anything Can Happen
• District and Circle
• Wordsworth’s Skates
• Found Prose
• The Lift
• Nonce Words
• Stern
• from Out of This World
• In Iowa
• Höfn
• The Tollund Man in Springtime
• Planting the Alder
• Tate’s Avenue
• Fiddleheads
• Quitting Time
• The Blackbird of Glanmore
• ‘Had I not been awake’
• Album
• The Conway Stewart
• Uncoupled
• The Butts
• Chanson d’Aventure
• Miracle
• Human Chain
• The Baler
• Eelworks
• The Riverbank Field
• Route 110
• Wraiths
• ‘The door was open and the house was dark’
• In the Attic
• A Kite for Aibhín
• In Time
• Index
• About the Author
• By the Same Author
• Copyright