

- Home
- Poetry
- Typographic Poetry Covers
- Door into the Dark
Door into the Dark
Door into the Dark, by Seamus Heaney, depicts the Irish poet’s rural upbringing with the sensuousness and physicality of language that would become the hallmark of his early writing.
9 in stock
We are temporarily only able to ship Faber Shop orders to addresses in the UK.
Originally published in 1969, Seamus Heaney’s Door into the Dark continues a furrow so startlingly opened in his first collection, Death of a Naturalist (1966). With the sensuousness and physicality of language that would become the hallmark of his early writing, these poems graphically depict the author’s rural upbringing, from the local forge to the banks of Lough Neagh, concluding in the preserving waters of the bogland and a look ahead to his next book, Wintering Out (1972).
Seamus Heaney was born in County Derry in Northern Ireland. Death of a Naturalist, his first collection of poems, appeared in 1966, and was followed by poetry, criticism and translations which established him as the leading poet of his generation. In 1995 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, and twice won the Whitbread Book of the Year, for The Spirit…
Read More
Browse a selection of books we think you might also like, with genre matches and a few wildcards thrown in.

For what would have been Seamus Heaney’s 83rd birthday, we asked our Faber colleagues to share their first or favourite …

Director Adam Low shares his diary for his BBC documentary 'Seamus Heaney and the Music of What Happens'

Faber is very pleased to announce the publication of a new work by Seamus Heaney, a verse translation of Aeneid: Book …