Sweeney's Flight

Seamus Heaney

ISBN 10: 0571160158 / ISBN 13: 9780571160150

Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC, 1992

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Picture Shown is For Illustration Purposes Only, Please See Below For Further DetailsCONDITION ? VERY GOOD ? HARDBACK - light wear and scuff marks to jacket, pages in nice condition, shipped from the UK.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sweeney's Flight
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571160158
• ISBN 13: 9780571160150
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Giese, Rachel
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Inspired by Seamus Heaney's poems, and notably by his version of the medieval Irish saga Buile Suibhne, the American photographer Rachel Giese has produced a stunning portfolio of pictures of the northern Irish landscape, covering the boundaries of Mad Sweeney's original kingdom of Dal-Arie. She has followed the clues to topography and the natural world in Sweeney's wanderings, and gathered together 34 photographs which Seamus Heaney has matched with extracts and quotations from his Sweeney Astray.

About the Author

Seamus Heaney was born in County Derry in Northern Ireland. Death of a Naturalist, his first collection of poems, appeared in 1966 and since then he has published poetry, criticism and translations - including Beowulf (1999) - which have established him as one of the leading poets now at work. In 1995 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. District and Circle was awarded the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2006. Stepping Stones, a book of interviews conducted by Dennis O'Driscoll, appeared in 2008. In 2009 he received the David Cohen Prize for Literature. Human Chain was awarded the 2010 Forward Prize for Best Collection.