For the fortieth anniversary of its publication,in May 2006,Faber are reissuing Seamus Heaney's classic first collection,Death of a Naturalist, which on its appearance in 1966 won the Cholmondeley Award,the E.C. Gregory Award,the Somerset Maugham Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.'His words give us the soil-reek of Ireland,the colourful violence of his childhood on a farm in Derry. The full-blooded energy of these poems makes Death of a Naturalist the best first book of poems I've read for some time.'- C.B. Cox in the Spectator'The power and precision of his best poems are a delight,and as a first collection Death of a Naturalist is outstanding (...) His subject is those things which are inherent or inherited. What he praises is to be praised in his own work.'- Christopher Ricks,New Statesman'Now,to pry into roots,to finger slime,To stare big-eyed Narcissus,into some springIs beneath all adult dignity. I rhymeTo see myself,to set the darkness echoing.'
Publisher: Faber & FaberISBN: 9780571230839Number of pages: 56Weight: 80 gDimensions: 198 x 132 x 11 mmEdition: Main
Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney's passing in 2013 robbed the literary world of one of its most profound and learned voices. Born in 1939 in Northern Ireland,Heaney began publishing poetry whilst lecturing in Belfast in the 1960s,later moving to Dublin where he resided under his death.
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