THE RATTLE BAG

BEOWULF

A masterful new translation of the Anglo-Saxon poem. It is the tale of a hero, his triumphs and his death as a defender of his people. Whitbread Book of the Year Winner.

DISTRICT AND CIRCLE

A new collection of prose poems and translations from Seamus Heaney. It offers resistance as the poet gathers his staying powers and stands his ground in the hiding places of love and excited language.

ELECTRIC LIGHT

A collection of poetry which travels widely in time and space but essentially deals with beginnings.

HUMAN CHAIN

Seamus Heaney’s twelfth collection of poems describes continuities and solidarities. Incorporating new versions of early Irish lyrics it combines the scholarly with the vernacular.

NEW SELECTED POEMS

An unrivalled account of a period of work that was crowned by the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. This collection reprints the author's chosen poems from his later years, completing the arc of a remarkable career.

THE SPIRIT LEVEL

The author's first book of poems since he was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature. This is a commercial recording, the original book was published by Faber 1996. Whitbread Book of the Year Winner.

STATION ISLAND

Set on an Irish island which has been a site of pilgrimage for over a thousand years, Seamus Heaney's pilgrim is on an inner journey, trying to face the crises of the present.