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The Spirit Level (poetry collection)

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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print

Preceded by
  
Seeing Things

Originally published
  
1996

Genre
  
Poetry

Publisher
  
Faber and Faber

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Publication date
  
2001

Pages
  
80 pp

Followed by
  
Electric Light

Author
  
Seamus Heaney

ISBN
  
9780571178223

Awards
  
Costa Book of the Year

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Seamus Heaney books, Costa Book of the Year winners, Poetry books

The Spirit Level (1996) is a poetry collection written by Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. It won the poetry prize for the 1996 Whitbread Awards.

Heaney has been recorded reading this collection on the Seamus Heaney Collected Poems album.

Contents

  • The Rain Stick
  • To a Dutch Potter in Ireland 1.
  • To a Dutch Potter in Ireland 2. After Liberation
  • A Brigid's Girdle
  • Mint
  • A Sofa in the Forties
  • Keeping Going
  • Two Lorries
  • Damson
  • Weighing In
  • St Kevin and the Blackbird
  • The Flight Path 1
  • The Flight Path 2
  • The Flight Path 3
  • The Flight Path 4
  • The Flight Path 5
  • The Flight Path 6
  • An Invocation
  • Mycenae Lookout 1. The Watchman's War
  • Mycenae Lookout 2. Cassandra
  • Mycenae Lookout 3. His Dawn Vision
  • Mycenae Lookout 4. The Nights
  • Mycenae Lookout 5. The Reverie of Water
  • The First Words
  • The Gravel Walks
  • Whitby-sur-Moyola
  • The Thimble
  • The Butter-Print
  • Remembered Columns
  • 'Poet's Chair'
  • The Swing
  • The Poplar
  • Two Stick Drawings (1)
  • Two Stick Drawings (2)
  • A Call
  • The Errand
  • A Dog Was Crying Tonight in Wicklow Also
  • M.
  • An Architect
  • The Sharping Stone
  • The Strand
  • The Walk
  • At the Wellhead
  • At Banagher
  • Tollund
  • Postscript

    • References

    The Spirit Level (poetry collection) Wikipedia
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