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Seamus Heaney Bibliography

Poetry, Main Collections



1966: Death of a Naturalist, Faber & Faber 

1969: Door into the Dark, Faber & Faber 

1972: Wintering Out, Faber & Faber 

1975: North, Faber & Faber 

1979: Field Work, Faber & Faber 

1984: Station Island, Faber & Faber 

1987: The Haw Lantern, Faber & Faber 

1991: Seeing Things, Faber & Faber 

1996: The Spirit Level, Faber & Faber 

2001: Electric Light, Faber & Faber 

2006: District and Circle, Faber & Faber 



Poetry, Collected Editions



1980: Selected Poems 1965-1975, Faber & Faber 

1990: New Selected Poems 1966-1987, Faber & Faber 

1998: Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996, Faber & Faber 



Prose, Main collections

1980: Preoccupations: Selected Prose 1968-1978, Faber & Faber 

1988: The Government of the Tongue, Faber & Faber 

1995: The Redress of Poetry: Oxford Lectures, Faber & Faber 

2002: Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001, Faber & Faber 



Plays



1990: The Cure at Troy A version of Sophocles' Philoctetes, Field Day 

2004: The Burial at Thebes A version of Sophocles' Antigone, Faber & Faber 



Translations



1983: Sweeney Astray: A version from the Irish, Field Day 

1992: Sweeney's Flight (with Rachel Giese, photographer), Faber & Faber 

1993: The Midnight Verdict

1995: Laments, a cycle of Polish Renaissance elegies by Jan Kochanowski 

1999: Beowulf, Faber & Faber 

1999: Diary of One Who Vanished

2002: Hallaig, Sorley MacLean Trust 

2002: Arion, a poem by Alexander Pushkin 

2004: The Testament at Cresseid, Enitharmon Press 

2004: Columcille The Scribe, The Royal Irish Academy 

2009: The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables, Faber & Faber 



Limited Editions and Booklets (Poetry & Prose)



1965: Eleven Poems, Queen's University 

1968: The Island People, BBC 

1968: Room to Rhyme, Arts Council N.I. 

1969: A Lough Neagh Sequence, Phoenix 

1970: Night Drive, Gilbertson 

1970: A Boy Driving His Father to Confession, Sceptre Press 

1973: Explorations, BBC 

1975: Stations, Ulsterman Publications 

1975: Bog Poems, Rainbow Press 

1975: The Fire i' the Flint, Oxford University Press 

1976: Four Poems, Crannog Press 

1977: Glanmore Sonnets, Editions Monika Beck 

1977: In Their Element, Arts Council N.I. 

1978: Robert Lowell: A Memorial Address and an Elegy, Faber & Faber 

1978: The Makings of a Music, University of Liverpool 

1978: After Summer, Gallery Press 

1979: Hedge School, Janus Press 

1979: Ugolino, Carpenter Press 

1979: Gravities, Charlotte Press 

1979: A Family Album, Byron Press 

1980: Toome, National College of Art and Design 

1981: Sweeney Praises the Trees, Henry Pearson 

1982: A Personal Selection, Ulster Museum 

1982: Poems and a Memoir, Limited Editions Club 

1983: An Open Letter, Field Day 

 

Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen's University, Belfast1983: Among Schoolchildren, Queen's University 



1984: Verses for a Fordham Commencement, Nadja Press 

1984: Hailstones, Gallery Press 

1985: From the Republic of Conscience, Amnesty International 

1985: Place and Displacement, Dove Cottage 

1985: Towards a Collaboration, Arts Council N.I. 

1986: Clearances, Cornamona Press 

1988: Readings in Contemporary Poetry, DIA Art Foundation 

1988: The Sounds of Rain, Emory University 

1989: An Upstairs Outlook, Linen Hall Library 

1989: The Place of Writing, Emory University 

1990: The Tree Clock, Linen Hall Library 

1991: Squarings, Hieroglyph Editions 

1992: Dylan the Durable, Bennington College 

1992: The Gravel Walks, Lenoir Rhyne College 

1992: The Golden Bough, Bonnefant Press 

1993: Keeping Going, Bow and Arrow Press 

1993: Joy or Night, University of Swansea 

1994: Extending the Alphabet, Memorial University of Newfoundland 

1994: Speranza in Reading, University of Tasmania 

1995: Oscar Wilde Dedication, Westminster Abbey 

1995: Charles Montgomery Monteith, All Souls College 

1995: Crediting Poetry: The Nobel Lecture, Gallery Press 

1997: Poet to Blacksmith, Pim Witteveen 

1998: Commencement Address, UNC Chapel Hill 

1998: Audenesque, Maeght 

1999: The Light of the Leaves, Bonnefant Press 

2001: Something to Write Home About, Flying Fox 

2002: Hope and History, Rhodes University 

2002: Ecologues in Extremis, Royal Irish Academy 

2002: A Keen for the Coins, Lenoir Rhyne College 

2003: Squarings, Arion Press 

2004: Anything can Happen, Town House Publishers 

2005: The Door Stands Open, Irish Writers Centre 

2005: A Shiver, Clutag Press 

2007: The Riverbank Field, Gallery Press 

2008: Articulations, Royal Irish Academy 

2008: One on a Side, Robert Frost Foundation 

2009: Spelling It Out, Gallery Press 



About Heaney and his work



1993: The Poetry of Seamus Heaney ed. by Elmer Andrews, ISBN 0-231-11926-7 

1993: Seamus Heaney: The Making of the Poet by Michael Parker, ISBN 0-333-47181-4 

1995: Critical essays on Seamus Heaney ed. by Robert F. Garratt, ISBN 0-7838-0004-5 

1998: The Poetry of Seamus Heaney: A Critical Study by Neil Corcoran, ISBN 0-571-17747-6 

2000: Seamus Heaney by Helen Vendler, ISBN 0-674-00205-9, Harvard University Press 

2007: Seamus Heaney and the Emblems of Hope by Karen Marguerite Moloney, ISBN 978-0-8262-1744-8 

2009: The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney edited by Bernard O'Donoghue