Death of a Naturalist published by Faber in 1966 is Seamus Heaney’s inaugural collection. His early poems demonstrate accessibility, erudition and vitality. Subsequent collections over more than half a century will confirm Heaney’s place at the very top of the premier league of 20th century poets writing in English.
- Foreword
- Turkeys Observed
- Trout
- Cow in Calf
- Waterfall
- Poor Women in a City Church
- Docker
- Gravities
- Valediction
- Twice Shy
- Lovers on Aran
- Honeymoon Flight
- Poem
- Scaffolding
- Synge on Aran
- Storm on the Island
- Saint Francis and the Birds
- Digging
- The Barn
- Death of an Naturalist
- Blackberry Picking
- Churning Day
- The Early Purges
- An Advancement of Learning
- Mid-Term Break
- Ancestral Photograph
- Dawnshoot
- Follower
- For the Commander of the Eliza
- At a Potato Digging
- Personal Helicon
- The Play Way
- The Diviner
- The Folk Singers
- In Small Townlands
- Afterthoughts