Seamus Heaney: A Handful of Late Poems
A reading of a handful of poems from the second half of Seamus Heaney's career. Aside from his book Seeing Things, his poetry doesn't seem nearly as powerful to me as his earlier work, and so it seemed best to sum up my favorite poems from his later life here.
The poems are:
Station Island (1984)
- The Railway Children
- Part VII from "Station Island"
from The Spirit Level (1996)
- The Strand
- Postscript
from District and Circle (2006)
- A Shiver
- Part 1 of "District and Circle"
- A Hagging Match
from Human Chain (2010)
- from "Colum Cille Cecinit"
- from "Hermit Songs"
And a final section from his translation of Beowulf
You can buy the individual volumes, or find nearly all of these poems in the career-spanning 100 Poems.
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