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100 Poems: Seamus Heaney by Seamus HEANEY
$28.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Seamus Heaney had the idea to form a personal selection of poems from across the entire arc of his writing life, small yet comprehensive enough to serve as an introduction for all comers. He never managed to do this himself, and no other edition exists which has such a broad range, drawing from first to ...Show more
Aeneid: Book VI by Seamus Heaney
$28.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
In a momentous publication, Seamus Heaney's translation of Book VI of the Aeneid, Virgil's epic poem composed sometime between 29 and 19 BC, follows the hero, Aeneas, on his descent into the underworld. In Stepping Stones, a book of interviews conducted by Dennis O'Driscoll, Heaney acknowledged the impo ...Show more
District and Circle by Seamus Heaney
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Seamus Heaney's new collection starts 'in an age of bare hands and cast iron' and ends 'as the automatic lock / clunks shut' in the eerie new conditions of a menaced twenty-first century. In their haunted, almost visionary clarity, the poems assay the weight and worth of what has been held in the hand a ...Show more
District and Circle by Seamus Heaney
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
"Again the growl Of shutting doors, the jolt and one-off treble Of iron on iron, then a long centrifugal Haulage of speed through every dragging socket." Seamus Heaney's new collection starts 'in an age of bare hands and cast iron' and ends 'as the automatic lock / clunks shut' in the eerie new conditio ...Show more
Human Chain by Seamus Heaney
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Seamus Heaney's new collection elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now, inside an intently remembered present - the stepping stones of the day, the weight and heft of what is passed from hand to hand, lifted and lowered. "Human Chain" also broaches ...Show more
Human Chain by Seamus Heaney
$37.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Seamus Heaney's new collection elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now, inside an intently remembered present - the stepping stones of the day, the weight and heft of what is passed from hand to hand, lifted and lowered. "Human Chain" also broaches ...Show more
New Selected Poems 1966-1987 by Seamus Heaney
$36.99 NZD
Category: World poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
An updated selection of all Heaney's books, up to and including "The Haw Lantern", which was published in 1987. The book also includes selections from "Stations", prose poems of 1975 which have never appeared except as a pamphlet.
New Selected Poems 1988-2013 by Seamus Heaney
$36.99 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
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 ...Show more
Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996 by Seamus Heaney
$50.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
When Seamus Heaney prepared Opened Ground it came as close to being a 'Collected Poems' as the author cared to make it. The edition draws from four decades of Seamus Heaney's verse, together with examples of his work as a translator, from his scintillating debut, Death of a Naturalist, to The Spirit Lev ...Show more
Seamus Heaney: New Selected Poems 1988-2013 by Seamus Heaney
$50.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
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 ...Show more
Stepping Stones : Interviews with Seamus Heaney by Dennis O'Driscoll & Seamus Heaney
$60.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
Widely regarded as the finest poet of his generation, Seamus Heaney is the subject of numerous critical studies; but no book-length portrait has appeared until now. Through his own lively and eloquent reminiscences, "Stepping Stones" retraces the poet's steps from his early works, through to his receipt ...Show more
The Rattle Bag by Ted Hughes; Seamus Heaney (Editor)
$40.00 NZD
Category: No Category
The Rattle Bag is an anthology of poetry (mostly in English but occasionally in translation) for general readers and students of all ages and backgrounds. These poems have been selected by the simple yet telling criteria that they are the personal favorites of the editors, themselves two of contemporary ...Show more