Frontier of Writing

<p><em>The Frontier of Writing: A Study of Seamus Heaney’s Prose</em> is the first collection of essays solely focused on examining the Nobel prize winning poet’s prose. The collection offers ten different perspectives on this body of work which vary from sustained thematic analyses on poetic form the construction of identity and poetry as redress to a series of close readings of prose writing on poetic exemplars such as Robert Lowell Patrick Kavanagh W.B Yeats Ted Hughes Philip Larkin and Brian Friel. Seamus Heaney’s prose is extensive in its literary depth knowledge critical awareness and its span. During the course of his life he published six collections of prose entitled <em>Preoccupations: Selected Prose 1968–1978</em> <em>Place and Displacement: Recent Poetry of Northern Ireland</em> <em>The Government of the Tongue: The 1986 T.S. Eliot Memorial Lectures and Other Critical Writings</em> <em>The Place of Writing</em> <em>The Redress of Poetry: Oxford Lectures</em> and <em>Finders Keepers</em>. Each of these texts is addressed in the collection alongside occasional and specific essays such as ‘Crediting Poetry’ ‘Writer and Righter’ and ‘Mossbawn via Mantua: Ireland in/and Europe Cross-currents and Exchanges’ among many others. This book is a comprehensive and timely study of Seamus Heaney’s prose from leading international scholars in the field.</p>