Seamus Heaney Bibliography

Poetry

Eleven Poems (Queen's University, 1965)
Death of a Naturalist (Faber & Faber, 1966)
The Island People (BBC, 1968)
A Lough Neagh Sequence (Pheonix, 1969)
Door into the Dark (Faber & Faber, 1969)
Night Drive (Gilbertson, 1970)
A Boy Driving His Father to Confession (Sceptre Press, 1970)
Wintering Out (Faber & Faber, 1972)
Stations (Ulsterman Publications, 1975)
Bog Poems (Rainbow Press, 1975)
North (Faber & Faber, 1975)
After Summer (Gallery Press, 1978)
Hedge School (Janus Press, 1979)
Ugolino (Carpenter Press, 1979)
Field Work (Faber & Faber, 1979)
Gravities (Charlotte Press, 1979)
A Family Album (Byron Press, 1979)
Selected Poems 1965-1975 (Faber & Faber, 1980)
Poems and a Memoir (Limited Editions Club, 1982)
An Open Letter (Field Day, 1983)
Verses for a Fordham Commencement (Nadja Press, 1984)
Station Island (Faber & Faber, 1984)
Hailstones (Gallery Press, 1984)
From the Republic of Conscience (Amnesty International, 1985)
Clearances (Cornamona Press, 1986)
The Haw Lantern (Faber & Faber, 1987)
The Sounds of Rain (Emory University, 1988)
New Selected Poems 1966-1987 (Faber & Faber, 1990)
The Tree Clock (Linen Hall Library, 1990)
Squarings (Hieroglyph Editions, 1991)
Seeing Things (Faber & Faber, 1991)
The Golden Bough (Bonnefant Press, 1992)
Keeping Going (Bow and Arrow Press, 1993)
The Spirit Level (Faber & Faber, 1996)
Audenesque (Maeght, 1998)
Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996 (Faber & Faber, 1998)
The Light of the Leaves (Bonnefant Press, 1999)
Electric Light (Faber & Faber, 2001)
District and Circle (Faber & Faber, 2006)
Follower
The Riverbank Field (Gallery Press, 2007)

Translations

Sweeney Astray: A version from the Irish (Field Day, 1983)
Sweeney's Flight (with Rachel Giese, photographer) (Faber & Faber, 1992)
The Midnight Verdict: Translations from the Irish of Brian Merriman and from the Metamorphoses of Ovid (Gallery Press, 1993)
Jan Kochanowski: Laments (Faber & Faber, 1995)
Beowulf (Faber & Faber, 1999)
Diary of One Who Vanished (Faber & Faber, 1999)

Essays

Preoccupations: Selected Prose 1968-1978 (Faber & Faber, 1980)
The Government of the Tongue (Faber & Faber, 1988)
The Place of Writing (Emory University, 1989)
The Redress of Poetry: Oxford Lectures (Faber & Faber, 1995)
Crediting Poetry: The Nobel Lecture (Gallery Press, 1995)
Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001 (Faber & Faber, 2002)

Plays

The Cure at Troy A version of Sophocles' Philoctetes (Field Day, 1990)
The Burial at Thebes A version of Sophocles' Antigone (Faber & Faber, 2004)



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