The Haw Lantern - Softcover

Heaney, Seamus

Softcover

ISBN 10: 057114781X ISBN 13: 9780571147816

Publisher: Faber and Faber, 1987

Synopsis

Widely and justly celebrated for his flawless handling of the lyric, Seamus Heaney is here shown venturing into new imaginative territory. Poems exploring the theme of loss, and in particular a sonnet sequence concerning the death of the poet's mother, are joined in The Haw Lantern by meditations on the conscience of the writer and exercises in an allegorical vein that will both surprise and delight the many admirers of his previous work.

'More than other poet since Wordsworth he can make us understand that the outside world is not outside, but what we are made of.' John Carey, Sunday Times

About this title

Book Description:

The Haw Lantern by Seamus Heaney contains some of the Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet's most moving and memorable work.

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber and Faber
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 057114781X
• ISBN 13: 9780571147816
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 64