Seeing Things is the ninth poetry collection by Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. It was published in 1991. Heaney draws inspiration from the visions of afterlife in Virgil and Dante Alighieri in order to come to terms with the death of his father, Patrick, in 1986. The title, Seeing Things, refers both to the solid, fluctuating world of objects and to a haunted, hallucinatory realm of the imagination. Heaney has been recorded reading this collection on the Seamus Heaney Collected Poems album.
The Golden BoughPART I
The Journey BackMarkingsThree Drawings 1. The PointThree Drawings 2. The PulseThree Drawings 3. A HaulCasting and GatheringMan and BoySeeing Things ISeeing Things IISeeing Things IIIThe Ash Plant1.1.87An August NightField of VisionThe PitchforkA Basket of ChestnutsThe BirettaThe Settle BedThe SchoolbagGlanmore Revisited 1. ScrabbleGlanmore Revisited 2. The CotGlanmore Revisited 3. Scene ShiftsGlanmore Revisited 4. 1973Glanmore Revisited 5. Lustral SonnetGlanmore Revisited 6. Bedside ReadingGlanmore Revisited 7. The SkylightA Pillowed HeadA Royal ProspectA RetrospectThe RescueWheels within WheelsThe Sounds of RainFosterling
PART II - SQUARINGS
1: Lightenings
Lightenings iLightenings iiLightenings iiiLightenings ivLightenings vLightenings viLightenings viiLightenings viiiLightenings ixLightenings xLightenings xiLightenings xii2: Settings
Settings xiiiSettings xivSettings xvSettings xviSettings xviiSettings xviiiSettings xixSettings xxSettings xxiSettings xxiiSettings xxiiiSettings xxiv3: Crossings
Crossings xxvCrossings xxviCrossings xxviiCrossings xxviiiCrossings xxixCrossings xxxCrossings xxxiCrossings xxxiiCrossings xxxiiiCrossings xxxivCrossings xxxvCrossings xxxvi4. Squarings
Squarings xxxviiSquarings xxxviiiSquarings xxxixSquarings xlSquarings xliSquarings xliiSquarings xliiiSquarings xlivSquarings xlvSquarings xlviSquarings xlviiSquarings xlviiiThe Crossing
