“Every crease is a story.”

Author
1939–2013
Seamus Justin Heaney MRIA (/ˈʃeɪməs ˈhiːni/; 13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Among his best-known works is Death of a Naturalist (1966), his first major published volume. Heaney was and is still recognised as one of the principal contributors to poetry in Ireland during his lifetime. American poet Robert Lowell described him as "the most important Irish poet since Yeats", and many others, including the academic John Sutherland, have said that he was "the greatest poet of our age". Robert Pinsky has stated that "with his wonderful gift of eye and ear Heaney has the gift of the story-teller." Upon his death in 2013, The Independent described him as "probably the best-known poet in the world". source
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Beowulf
Seamus Heaney, 2000

The Burial at Thebes
Seamus Heaney, 2004

Death of a Naturalist
Seamus Heaney, 1966

The cure at Troy
Seamus Heaney, 1990

Prentice Hall Literature - Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes - The British Tradition
Kate Kinsella, Kevin Feldman & others, 2002

Opened Ground
Seamus Heaney, 1998

Prentice Hall Literature--The British Tradition
Andrew W. Conrad, Joseph Addison & others, 2000

The Redress of Poetry
Seamus Heaney, 1990

North
Seamus Heaney, 1975

Sweeney astray
Seamus Heaney, 1983

The Spirit Level
Seamus Heaney, 1996

Human chain
Seamus Heaney, 2010

The School Bag
Seamus Heaney & Ted Hughes, 1997

Seeing things
Seamus Heaney, 1991

Selected Poems 1966-1987
Seamus Heaney, 1990

Poems, 1965-1975
Seamus Heaney, 1980
Joy or night: Last things in the poetry of W.B. Yeats and Philip Larkin
Seamus Heaney, 1993

Prentice Hall Literature--The British Edition--Volume II
Kate Kinsella, Robert Burns & others, 2007

Field work
Seamus Heaney, 2009

Door into the Dark
Seamus Heaney, 1969

Preoccupations
Seamus Heaney, 1980
An Open Letter
Seamus Heaney, 1983

Prentice Hall Literature -- Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes -- Reader's Companion -- Bronze Level
Pearson Education, Isaac Bashevis Singer & others, 2003

Faber & Faber poetry diary 2016
Seamus Heaney, 2015
Grotus and Coventina
Seamus Heaney, 1984

Selected Poems, 1965-1975
Seamus Heaney, 1980

The Makings of a Music
Seamus Heaney, 1992

Wintering out
Seamus Heaney, 1972

100 Poems
Seamus Heaney, 2018

District and Circle
Seamus Heaney, 2006
New Selected Poems 1988-2013
Seamus Heaney, 2015

Rare Seamus Heaney / Field Work Signed 1st Edition 1979
Seamus Heaney, 1979

New Selected Poems 1966-1987
Seamus Heaney, 1991

Soundings
Seamus Heaney, 1974
The Strand at Lough Beg
Seamus Heaney, 1979

100 poemas
Seamus Heaney & Andrés Catalán Rubio, 2019
Letters of Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney & Christopher Reid, 2023

Cadena humana
Seamus Heaney, 2011
Poems of Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney, Bernard O'Donoghue & others, 2025

Arvon Foundation poetry competition
Ted Hughes & Seamus Heaney, 1982
Aeneid
Seamus Heaney, 2016
Austin Clarke remembered
Seamus Heaney, 1996

The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation
Seamus Heaney, 2012
Luz eléctrica =
Seamus Heaney, 2003
Verses for a Fordham commencement
Seamus Heaney, 1984

Buile Suibhne
Seamus Heaney, 1984

Electric light
Seamus Heaney, 2001

Station Island
Seamus Heaney, 1984
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