Field Work (Faber Modern Classics)

Product Description Seamus Heaney was the greatest poet of our age (Guardian). From his remarkable debut in 1966 he pioneered the poetry of our times across five decades of cultural and political change and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995.Field Work his fifth volume from 1979 is a collection of poems that were among the finest he would ever write. Inspired by the four years that Heaney and his family spent in rural County Wicklow after leaving the violence of Belfast Field Work is one of the poet s most celebrated volumes.The collection contains some of his best-loved poems Oysters Casualty The Otter The Strand at Lough Beg and The Skunk as well as his defining sequence Glanmore Sonnets . Book Description Seamus Heaney s beloved second collection Field Work is published as a Faber Modern Classic in 2017. About the Author 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 forThe Spirit Level (1996) andBeowulf (1999).Stepping Stones a book of interviews conducted by Dennis O Driscoll appeared in 2008;Human Chain his last volume of poems was awarded the 2010 Forward Prize for Best Collection. He died in 2013. His translation of Virgil sAeneid Book VI was published posthumously in 2016 to critical acclaim followed in 2018 by100 Poems a selection of poems from his entire career chosen by his family.