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These works remain essential for anyone engaged with \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e and the enduring power of poetic expression.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"100-poems-by-seamus-heaney-9780571347162","title":"100 Poems","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCoinciding with the National Library of Ireland launching a major exhibition dedicated to the life and work of Seamus Heaney, \u003ci\u003e100 Poems\u003c\/i\u003e 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.","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46520176214252,"sku":"9780571347162","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/11147733482391.jpg?v=1748984685"},{"product_id":"field-work-by-seamus-heaney-9780571331185","title":"Field Work","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSeamus Heaney was 'the greatest poet of our age' \u003cem\u003e(Guardian)\u003c\/em\u003e. From his remarkable debut in 1966, he pioneered the poetry of our times across five decades of cultural and political change, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eField Work\u003c\/em\u003e, his fifth volume, from 1979, is a collection of poems that were among the finest he would ever write. Inspired by the four years that Heaney and his family spent in rural County Wicklow after leaving the violence of Belfast, \u003cem\u003eField Work\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the poet's most celebrated volumes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection contains some of his best-loved poems, 'Oysters', 'Casualty', 'The Otter', 'The Strand at Lough Beg', and 'The Skunk', as well as his defining sequence 'Glanmore Sonnets'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46520879218924,"sku":"9780571331185","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/10987963482391.jpg?v=1749000986"},{"product_id":"new-selected-poems-1966-1987-by-seamus-heaney-9780571143726","title":"New Selected Poems 1966-1987","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis is close-up poetry—close up to thought, to the world, to the emotions. 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It replaces his \u003cem\u003eNew Selected Poems 1966-1987\u003c\/em\u003e, giving a fuller selection from each of the volumes represented there and adding large parts of those that have appeared since, together with examples of his work as a translator.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book concludes with \"Crediting Poetry\", the speech with which Seamus Heaney accepted the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded to him, in the words of the Swedish Academy of Letters, for his 'works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46521539821804,"sku":"9780571194933","price":50.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9625443482391.jpg?v=1749016168"},{"product_id":"beowulf-by-seamus-heaney-9780571203765","title":"Beowulf","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe whole performance is wonderfully intermediate - poised between the Bible and folk wisdom, between the Light Ages and the Dark Ages - and at the same time pulverisingly actual in its language. Heaney has caught the balance of these brilliantly; he has made a masterpiece out of a masterpiece.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAndrew Motion, Financial Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat characterises this \u003cem\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/em\u003e is its energetic, relentless driving forward. It is a miraculous mix of the poem's original spirit and Heaney's voice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBernard O'Donoghue, Irish Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46529659633900,"sku":"9780571203765","price":30.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9713763482391.jpg?v=1749226559"},{"product_id":"beowulf-by-seamus-heaney-9780571230419","title":"Beowulf","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/em\u003e, composed between the seventh and tenth century, is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel, and, later, from Grendel's mother. He returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid battle against a dragon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and living on in the exhausted aftermath.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHeaney's celebrated translation honours what is remote and intuits what is uncannily familiar, at the end of the twentieth century, in this founding masterpiece of English poetry. Now, for the first time, the Old English text—which survived only in a single scorched manuscript, now held in the British Museum—can be read in conjunction with the translation on facing pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46529660256492,"sku":"9780571230419","price":34.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9980303482391.jpg?v=1749226732"},{"product_id":"the-poems-of-seamus-heaney-by-seamus-heaney-9780571340385","title":"The Poems of Seamus Heaney","description":"\u003cb\u003e'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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the long-awaited, definitive edition of Seamus Heaney's poetry. It encompasses all the poems Heaney published in his lifetime as well as the small number that appeared after his death: twelve single volumes, from \u003ci\u003eDeath of a Naturalist \u003c\/i\u003e(1966) to \u003ci\u003eHuman Chain\u003c\/i\u003e (2010), and those poems published in pamphlets, journals and magazines or with limited circulation. 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John Banville\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'These poems find - in the dowser's gift and the child's perception of the world - images of the marvellous that are also wonderfully grounded. . . Heaney is a poet who deserves to be read in entirety.' Jamie McKendrick\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'For Heaney, there were marvels enough in this world, and never mind the next. Ordinary objects and places - a sofa, a wireless, a satchel, a gust of wind, the sound of rain - were sanctified.' 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Together with its earlier, sibling volume, it completes the arc of a remarkable career.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShortly before his death in 2013, Seamus Heaney discussed with his publisher the prospect of a companion volume to his landmark \u003cem\u003eNew Selected Poems 1966-1987\u003c\/em\u003e aimed at presenting the second half of his career, 'from Seeing Things onwards', as he foresaw it. 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