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North

Seamus Heaney

This edition of Seamus Heaney's seminal fourth collection North, reproduced in its elegant first setting and in its original jacket, marks fifty years since first publication in 1975.

By conjuring aspects of a shared Northern European experience - its peculiar landscapes and weathers, its sea-faring incursions, the vernaculars of its buried and living peoples - Heaney found a way of articulating a vision of Ireland in which the disruptions and violences of the Troubles could be reflected too.

'. . . it's the brilliant reconciliation of art with politics that sets North apart from the rest of Heaney's oeuvre and gives it a kind of dark majesty.' Robert McCrum, Guardian

'The seedtime of the soul and the dissolution of the flesh melt equally into history, exhumed only temporarily in Heaney's penetrating vision, where gravity and preservation unite.' Helen Vendler, New York Times

Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney was born in County Derry in Northern Ireland. Death of a Naturalist, his first collection of poems, appeared in 1966, and was followed by poetry, criticism and translations which established him as the leading poet of his generation. In 1995 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, and twice won the Whitbread Book of the Year, for The Spirit Level (1996) and Beowulf (1999). Stepping Stones, a book of interviews conducted by Dennis O'Driscoll, appeared in 2008; Human Chain, his last volume of poems, was awarded the 2010 Forward Prize for Best Collection. He died in 2013. His translation of Virgil's Aeneid Book VI was published posthumously in 2016 to critical acclaim, followed in 2018 by 100 Poems, a selection of poems from his entire career, chosen by his family.

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North

Seamus Heaney

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The Poems of Seamus Heaney

The Letters of Seamus Heaney

The Translations of Seamus Heaney

The Letters of Seamus Heaney

100 Poems

The Haw Lantern

Aeneid Book VI

100 Poems

The Cure at Troy

Death of a Naturalist

New Selected Poems 1988-2013

Human Chain

District and Circle

The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables: Translated by Seamus Heaney

W. B. Yeats

Beowulf

Death of a Naturalist

The Burial at Thebes

The Rattle Bag: An Anthology of Poetry

The School Bag

W. B. Yeats

Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971 - 2001

The Redress of Poetry

Door into the Dark

Beowulf

New Selected Poems 1966-1987

Opened Ground

Wintering Out

The Spirit Level

North

Station Island

Sweeney Astray

Field Work

Electric Light

Government of the Tongue