As an image of deep feeling between husband and wife submerged
beneath the hardworking routines of rustic domesticity, who could
improve upon 'love/ like a tinsmith's scoop/ sunk past its gleam/
in the meal-bin'? Who would not thrill to the glimpse of two men
with a woodsaw cutting 'Into a felled beech backwards and forwards/
So that they seemed to row the steady earth' from a poem 12 years
later? Nobel Prize-winner Heaney's wonderful, not-quite-complete
collection, Opened Ground, infiltrates such pleasures into a weave
of responsible, self-questioning poetry that captures the
physicality of things, as well as the restless conscience of a poet
concerned to give due weight to his ancestry and to the violent
sectarianism of his Irish background. Each volume sampled here
introduces bright and surprising new threads into the oeuvre. There
are even a few touches (in The Haw Lantern) of postmodern
playfulness. And Seeing Things has an elegiac sequence (for both
parents) to die for. One of the richest books of poetry in our
language. (Kirkus UK)
This volume is a much-needed new selection of Seamus Heaney's work,
taking account of recent volumes and of the author's work as a
translator, and offering a more generous choice from previous
volumes. Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996 comes as close to being a
'Collected Poems' as its author cares to make it. It replaces his
New Selected Poems 1966-1987, giving a fuller selection from each
of the volumes represented there and adding large parts of those
that have appeared since, together with examples of his work as a
translator from the Greek, Latin, Italian and other languages. The
book concludes with 'Crediting Poetry', the speech with which
Seamus Heaney accepted the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded
to him, in the words of the Swedish Academy of Letters, for his
'works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth'.
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