New Selected Poems 1966-1987

This volume contains a selection of work from each of Seamus Heaney's published books of poetry up to and including the Whitbread prize-winning collection, <b>The Haw Lantern</b> (1987).<br><br>'His is 'close-up' poetry - close up to thought, to the world, to the emotions. Few writers at work today, in verse or fiction, can give the sense of rich, fecund, <i>lived</i> life that Heaney does.' John Banville<br><br>'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