100 Poems

Seamus Heaney

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN: 9780571347179
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: European Poetry
• Index: Literature

In 2013, Seamus Heaney met with Faber poetry editor Matthew Hollis in Dublin. He said that one project he would very much like to complete would be to prepare a personal selection from across the entire arc of his poetry, small yet comprehensive enough to serve as an introduction for all comers. He never managed to make the selection in his lifetime, and after his passing, the project was initially set aside. But now, at last, it has been returned to once more, and the result is an intimate gathering of poems chosen and introduced by the Heaney family. Coinciding with the opening by the National Library of Ireland of a permanent exhibition dedicated to the life and work of Seamus Heaney, this is a singular, accessible selection for new and younger readers that has the opportunity to reach far and wide, now and ahead.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Landing Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• Family Note
• Digging
• Death of a Naturalist
• Blackberry-Picking
• Follower
• Mid-Term Break
• The Diviner
• Twice Shy
• Scaffolding
• Personal Helicon
• The Forge
• The Peninsula
• Requiem for the Croppies
• Night Drive
• The Given Note
• Bogland
• Anahorish
• Broagh
• The Other Side
• The Tollund Man
• Wedding Day
• Westering
• Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication
• Funeral Rites
• The Grauballe Man
• Punishment
• from Whatever You Say Say Nothing
• from Singing School
• Oysters
• A Drink of Water
• The Strand at Lough Beg
• Casualty
• The Singer’s House
• Elegy
• from Glanmore Sonnets
• The Otter
• The Skunk
• Song
• The Harvest Bow
• In Memoriam Francis Ledwidge
• The Underground
• A Hazel Stick for Catherine Ann
• A Kite for Michael and Christopher
• The Railway Children
• from Station Island
• Alphabets
• The Haw Lantern
• From the Republic of Conscience
• The Stone Verdict
• from Clearances
• The Wishing Tree
• from The Cure at Troy
• Markings
• Seeing Things
• 1. i. 87
• Field of Vision
• from Glanmore Revisited
• A Pillowed Head
• Fosterling
• from Lightenings
• from Crossings
• The Rain Stick
• A Sofa in the Forties
• Keeping Going
• Two Lorries
• St Kevin and the Blackbird
• The Gravel Walks
• A Call
• A Dog Was Crying Tonight in Wicklow Also
• At the Wellhead
• At Banagher
• Postscript
• from Out of the Bag
• The Clothes Shrine
• from Sonnets from Hellas
• Anahorish 1944
• Anything Can Happen
• Helmet
• District and Circle
• Midnight Anvil
• The Lift
• Höfn
• Tate’s Avenue
• The Blackbird of Glanmore
• ‘Had I not been awake’
• The Conway Stewart
• Chanson d’Aventure
• Miracle
• Human Chain
• from Route 110
• ‘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