Death of a Naturalist
(, Main)
Publishing Details
Death of a Naturalist
By (Author) Seamus Heaney
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
21st January 2016
21st January 2016
Main
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
821.914
Physical Properties
64
Width 146mm, Height 224mm, Spine 11mm
200g
Description
Between my finger and my thumb/The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. -- from 'Digging' With its lyrical and descriptive powers, Death of a Naturalist marked the auspicious debut of one of the century's finest poets.
Author Bio
Seamus Heaney was born in County Derry in Northern Ireland. Death of a Naturalist, his first collection, appeared in 1966, and since then he has published poetry, criticism and translations which have established him as one of the leading poets of his generation. He has twice won the Whitbread Book of the Year, for The Spirit Level (1996) and Beowulf (1999). In 1995 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. District and Circle, his eleventh collection of poems, was published in 2006 and was awarded the T. S. Eliot Prize.
