<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[author results for seamus heaney]]></title><description><![CDATA[author results for seamus heaney]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/christchurch/rss/search?query=seamus%20heaney&amp;searchType=author&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 20:09:05 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[100 Poems]]></title><description><![CDATA[Seamus Heaney had the idea to form a personal selection from across the entire arc of his poetry, small yet comprehensive enough to serve as an introduction for all comers. He never managed to do this in his lifetime, and no edition exists which has such a broad range, drawing from first collection to last. But now, at last, the project has been returned to, resulting in an intimate gathering of poems chosen and introduced by the Heaney family. Coinciding with the National Library of Ireland launching a major exhibition dedicated to the life and work of Seamus Heaney, 100 Poems is a singular, accessible collection for new and younger readers that has the opportunity to reach far and wide, now and for years to come.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1095859</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1095859</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1095859037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finders Keepers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Delving into his literary heritage and his own voice in the modern world, this current collection contains the Nobel Prize winner's greatest lectures, short newspaper articles, radio commentaries, and other richly textured pieces. 10,000 first printing.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1652049</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1652049</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2002 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1652049037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Selected Prose 1971-2001</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Preoccupations]]></title><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1625438</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1625438</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 1984 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1625438037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Selected Prose, 1968-1978</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Poems of Seamus Heaney]]></title><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1756782</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1756782</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1756782037</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Selected Poems]]></title><description><![CDATA[Shortly before his death in 2013, Seamus Heaney discussed with his publisher the prospect of a companion volume to his landmark New Selected Poems 1966-1987 aimed at presenting the second half of his career, 'from Seeing Things onwards', as he foresaw it. This title reprints the author's chosen poems from his later years.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C866157</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C866157</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/866157037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>1988-2013</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Selected Poems]]></title><description><![CDATA["His is "close-up" poetry close up to thought, to the world, to the emotions. Few writers at work today, in verse or fiction, can give the sense of rich, fecund, lived life that Heaney does". (John Banville). "More than any other poet since Wordsworth he can make us understand that the outside world is not outside, but what we are made of". (John Carey). "Heaney's voice, by turns mythological and journalistic, rural and sophisticated, reminiscent and impatient, stern and yielding, curt and expansive, is one of a suppleness almost equal to consciousness itself". (Helen Vendler).]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C862952</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C862952</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/862952037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>1966-1987</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human Chain]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 larger questions of transmission, as lifelines to the inherited past. There are newly minted versions of anonymous early Irish lyric, poems which stand at the crossroads of oral and written, and other 'hermits songs' which weigh equally in their balance the craft of scribe and the poet's early calling as scholar. A remarkable sequence entitled "Route 110" plots the descent into the underworld in the Aeneid against single moments in the arc of a life, from a 1950s childhood to the birth of the poet's first grandchild. Other poems display a Virgilian pietas for the dead - friends, neighbours, family - which is yet wholly and movingly vernacular.  "Human Chain" also adapts a poetic 'herbal' by the Breton poet Guillevic - lyrics as delicate as ferns, which puzzle briefly over the world of things which excludes human speech, while affirming the interconnectedness of phenomena, as of a self-sufficiency in which we too are included. "Human Chain" is Seamus Heaney's twelfth collection of poems.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C689131</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C689131</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/689131037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opened Ground]]></title><description><![CDATA[An updated version of Seamus Heaney's "New Selected Poems 1966-1987", which has been expanded to include work from two subsequent collections, "Seeing Things" and the award-winning "The Spirit Level", as well as poems not previously published.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1637848</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1637848</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 1998 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1637848037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Poems, 1966-1996</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Spirit Level]]></title><description><![CDATA[A collection of poems from the winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature. The poems discover the possibility of a new beginning in many subjects and circumstances. Private memories, classical scenes and humble domestic objects are endowed with talismanic significance and friends and relatives are invoked for their promise and steadfastness.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1626066</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1626066</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 1996 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1626066037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Redress of Poetry]]></title><description><![CDATA[ These lectures were delivered by Seamus Heaney while he was Professor of Poetry at Oxford University. In the first of them, Heaney discusses and celebrates poetry's special ability to redress spiritual balance and to function as a counterweight to hostile and oppressive forces in the world. He proceeds to explore how this 'redress' manifests itself in a diverse range of poems and poets, including Christopher Marlowe's "Hero and Leander", "The Midnight Court" by the eighteenth-century Irish poet Brian Merriman, John Clare's vernacular writing and Oscar Wilde's "The Ballad of Reading Gaol". Several twentieth-century poets are also discussed - W. B. Yeats, Dylan Thomas, Elizabeth Bishop and others - and the whole book constitutes a vivid proof of the claim that 'poetry is strong enough to help'.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1623821</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1623821</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 1995 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1623821037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Station Island]]></title><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1625439</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1625439</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 1984 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1625439037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Field Work]]></title><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1625437</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1625437</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 1979 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1625437037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beowulf]]></title><description><![CDATA[Beowulf, now in Seamus Heaney's inspired translation.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1643969</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1643969</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 1999 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1643969037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The School Bag]]></title><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1629382</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1629382</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 1997 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1629382037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Rattle Bag]]></title><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1672313</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1672313</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 1982 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1672313037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>An Anthology of Poetry</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aeneid]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 importance of the poem to his writing, noting that 'there's one Virgilian journey that has indeed been a constant presence, and that is Aeneas's venture into the underworld. The motifs in Book VI have been in my head for years; the golden bough, Charon's barge, the quest to meet the shade of the father.' In this translation, Heaney employs the same deft handling of the original combined with the immediacy of language and flawless poetic voice as was on show in his translation of Beowulf, a reimagining which, in the words of Bernard O'Donoghue, brought the ancient poem back to life in 'a miraculous mix of the poem's original spirit and Heaney's voice'.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1041847</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1041847</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Virgil]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1041847037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Book VI</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables]]></title><description><![CDATA[The greatest of the late medieval Scottish makers, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one of the rhetorical masterpieces of the literature of these islands, is the narrative "Testament" of Cresseid, set in the aftermath of the Trojan War, which completes the story of Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde", offering a grim and tragic account of its faithless heroine's rejection by her lover Diomede, and her decline into prostitution and leprosy. A work of unreconciled Shakespearean intensity, the "Testament" has been translated by Seamus Heaney into a confident and yet faithful modern English idiom which honors the poem's unique blend of detachment and compassion. A master of narrative, Henryson was also a comic master of the verse fable; his burlesques of human weakness in the guise of animal wisdom are traced with delicate comedy and irony. Seven of the Fables are here sparklingly translated; their burlesque freshness rendered to the last claw and feather.  "Seven Fables and The Testament of Cresseid" is an extraordinarily rich and wide-ranging encounter between two poets across six centuries.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C646674</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C646674</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Henryson, Robert, 1430?-1506?]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/646674037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Burial at Thebes]]></title><description><![CDATA["Commissioned to mark the centenary of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 2004, The Burial at Thebes is Seamus Heaney's new verse translation of Sophocles' great tragedy, Antigone - whose eponymous heroine is one of the most sharply individualized and compelling figures in western drama. Faithful to the 'local row' and to the fierce specificity of the play's time and place, The Burial at Thebes honours the separate and irreconcilable claims of its opposed voices, as they enact the ancient but perennial conflict between family and state in a time of crisis, pitching the morality of private allegiance against that of public service. Above all, The Burial at Thebes honours the sovereign urgency and grandeur of the Antigone, in which language speaks truth to power, then and now."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1663058</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1663058</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sophocles, d. 406 B.C.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1663058037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Sophocles&apos; Antigone</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[W.B. Yeats]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the "Poet to Poet" series, a contemporary poet advocates a poet of the past or present whom they have particularly admired. By their selection of verses and their critical reactions, the selectors offer intriguing insights into their own work. Here, Seamus Heaney selects W.B. Yeats.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C704836</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C704836</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Yeats, W. B. 1865-1939]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/704836037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Poems</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death of A Naturalist]]></title><description><![CDATA[With its lyrical and descriptive powers, Death of a Naturalist marked the auspicious debut of one of the century's finest poets.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1558776</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1558776</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1558776037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Letters of Seamus Heaney]]></title><description><![CDATA[For all his public eminence, Seamus Heaney seems never to have lost the compelling need to write personal letters. In this ample but discriminating selection from fifty years of his correspondence, we are given access as never before to the life and poetic development of a literary titan - from his early days in Belfast, through his controversial decision to settle in the Republic, to the gradual broadening of horizons that culminated in the award of a Nobel Prize and the years of international acclaim that kept him heroically busy until his death. Editor, Christopher Reid draws from both public and private archives to reveal this story in the poet's own words.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1433122</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1433122</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1433122037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Selected Poems, 1931-2004]]></title><description><![CDATA[A compelling compendium of poetry by the Nobel Prize-winning poet represents a definitive overview of the work of the seminal author of Second Space, Facing the River, and other works.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1679623</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1679623</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Miłosz, Czesław, 1911-2004]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1679623037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Barrie Cooke]]></title><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1655236</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1655236</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 1998 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1655236037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plays]]></title><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1634212</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1634212</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[O'Casey, Sean, 1880-1964]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 1998 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1634212037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>One</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item></channel></rss>