Resources:
Site dedicated to the poet
Heaney on the Poetry Archive
Seamus Heaney on Amazon
Death of a Naturalist (1966)
Door in the Dark (1969)
Wintering Out (1972)
North (1975)
Station Island (1984)
The Haw Lantern (1987)
Seeing Things (1991)
Selected Poems, 1966-1987 (1991)
The Spirit Level (1996)
District and Level(2006)
The Human Chain (2010)
Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney (b. 1939) was the eldest child of nine born to a farming family in County Derry, Northern Ireland. He won a scholarship to St Columb’s College, Derry, beginning an academic career that would lead, through Queen’s University Belfast, where his first books of poems were written, to positions including Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard and the Oxford Professor of Poetry. As a poet, Heaney has become both critically feted and publicly popular. Among his many awards are the Nobel Prize for Literature 1995 and the Whitbread prize (twice); he was made a Commandeur de L’Ordre des Arts et Lettres in 1996. In 2007 Seamus Heaney won the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry in 2007 for District and Level and was shortlisted for the prize in 2011 for The Human Chain .
From the Poetry Archive
Seamus Heaney, winner in 1995 of the Nobel Prize in Literature
