A collection that starts 'in an age of bare hands and cast iron' and ends 'as the automatic lock / clunks shut' in the eerie new... Read more

Provides an introduction to William Wordsworth, one of the most important poets in our literature. Read more

A collection that elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now, inside an intently remembered... Read more

Composed towards the end of the first millennium of our era, the Anglo-Saxon poem "Beowulf" is a Northern epic and a classic of European... Read more

A reissue of Heaney's "New Selected Poems 1966-1987", which has been expanded to include work from two subsequent collections,... Read more

An epic poem by the Greek poet Homer, which is the tale of Odysseus' wanderings, a story of heroic adventure and romantic temptation. Read more

An updated selection of all Heaney's books, up to and including "The Haw Lantern", which was published in 1987. The book also includes... Read more

W B Yeats (1865-1939) was not only Ireland's greatest poet but one of the most influential voices in world literature in the twentieth century. Read more

Commissioned to mark the centenary of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 2004, "The Burial at Thebes" is Seamus Heaney's verse translation... Read more