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New Selected Poems 1966-1987 is the author’s own selection from the first half of his extraordinary career. From the outset, Seamus Heaney’s writing was ‘mature and certain in its touch’, as Austin Clarke conferred in the Irish Times, throughout a run of epoch-making volumes in the 1960s and 70s: Death of a Naturalist (1966), Door into the Dark (1969), Wintering Out (1972) and North (1975). The bravura pieces of Field Work (1979) and  Station Island (1984) that followed culminated in the Whitbread Prize for Poetry with The Haw Lantern (1987).

Author: Seamus Heaney