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Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.
— from ‘Digging’
With its lyrical and descriptive powers, Death of a Naturalist marked the auspicious debut of one of the century’s finest poets.
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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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 …