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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print

Dewey Decimal
  
821/.914 20

Author
  
Seamus Heaney

Publisher
  
Faber and Faber

OCLC
  
315574259

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Publication date
  
1990

Pages
  
245

Originally published
  
1990

Page count
  
245

Country
  
United Kingdom

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ISBN
  
0-571-14372-5 (hardback) ISBN 0-571-14372-5 (paperback)

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Seamus Heaney books, Other books

New Selected Poems 1966–1987 is a poetry collection by Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. It was published in 1990 (see 1990 in poetry) by Faber and Faber. It includes selections from each of Heaney's seven first volumes of verse:

  • Death of a Naturalist (1966)
  • Door into the Dark (1969)
  • Wintering Out (1972)
  • North (1975)
  • Field Work (1979)
  • Station Island (1984)
  • The Haw Lantern (1987)
  • It also includes several prose poems from Heaney's limited volume Stations (1975), as well as excerpts from Sweeney Astray (1983), Heaney's verse translation of the Irish legend Buile Shuibhne. The collection includes poems such as "The Haw Lantern", "Mid-Term Break", "Follower" and "Clearances".

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    New Selected Poems 1966–1987 Wikipedia