Field Work: Poems (FSG Classics)

Field Work is the record of four years during which Seamus Heaney left the violence of Belfast to settle in a country cottage with his family in Glanmore County Wicklow. Heeding an early warning system to get back inside my own head Heaney wrote poems with a new strength and maturity moving from the political concerns of his landmark volume North to a more personal contemplative approach to the world and to his own writing. In Field Work he brings a meditative music to bear upon fundamental themes of person and place the mutuality of ourselves and the world (Denis Donoghue The New York Times Book Review).