The Haw Lantern

Seamus Heaney

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Year: 2010
• eBook ISBN: 9780571262823
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Poetry
• Index: Literature

Widely and justly celebrated for his flawless handling of the lyric, Seamus Heaney is here shown venturing into new imaginative territory. Poems exploring the theme of loss, and in particular a sonnet sequence concerning the death of the poet's mother, are joined in The Haw Lantern by meditations on the conscience of the writer and exercises in an allegorical vein that will both surprise and delight the many admirers of his previous work.

'More than other poet since Wordsworth he can make us understand that the outside world is not outside, but what we are made of.' John Carey, Sunday Times

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Alphabets
• Terminus
• From the Frontier of Writing
• The Haw Lantern
• The Stone Grinder
• A Daylight Art
• Parable Island
• From the Republic of Conscience
• Hailstones
• Two Quick Notes
• The Stone Verdict
• From the Land of the Unspoken
• A Ship of Death
• The Spoonbait
• In Memoriam: Robert Fitzgerald
• The Old Team
• Clearances
• The Milk Factory
• The Summer of Lost Rachel
• The Wishing Tree
• A Postcard from Iceland
• A Peacock’s Feather
• Grotus and Coventina
• Holding Course
• The Song of the Bullets
• Wolfe Tone
• A Shooting Script
• From the Canton of Expectation
• The Mud Vision
• The Disappearing Island
• The Riddle
• About the Author
• Copyright