Seamus Heaney

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 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.

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.