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‘An irresistibly coherent book which celebrates the rising and the raising of the human spirit.’ Michael Hofmann, The Times
‘If any poetry written today can have this ‘redemptive effect’ – as Heaney in his critical writing has begun to claim it can – then this is it.’ Mick Imlah, Independent on Sunday
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…
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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 …