Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971 - 2001 - Softcover

Heaney, Seamus

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571210910 ISBN 13: 9780571210916

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2003

Finders Keepers is a gathering of Seamus Heaney's prose of three decades. Whether autobiographical, topical or specifically literary, these essays and lectures circle the central preoccupying questions: How should a poet properly live and write? What is his relationship to be to his own voice, his own place, his literary heritage and the contemporary world?

As well as being a selection from the poet's three previous collections of prose (Preoccupations, The Government of the Tongue and The Redress of Poetry), the present volume includes material from 'The Place of Writing', a series of lectures delivered at Emory University in 1988. Also included are a rich variety of pieces not previously collected in volume form, ranging from short newspaper articles to more extended lectures and contributions to books. In its soundings of a wide range of poets - Irish and British, American and East European, predecessors and contemporaries - Finders Keepers is, as its title indicates, 'an announcement of both excitement and possession'.

Review:

'His essays are essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the relation of poetic work to a poetic life.' Literary Review; 'Heaney has argued for - and demonstrated through his own work - the importance of the art of poetry.' Spectator

Book Description:

Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971 - 2001 gathers Nobel Prize-winner Seamus Heaney's essays and lectures from across three decades, selecting from volumes including Preoccupations, The Government of the Tongue and The Redress of Poetry.

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0571210910
• ISBN 13: 9780571210916
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432