North published by Faber and Faber in 1975 is Seamus Heaney’s fourth collection. Heaney was in his mid-thirties. The totality of his collections over more than half a century have confirmed Heaney’s place at the top of the premier league of poets writing in English.
- Navigating the ‘North’ Collection
- Foreword
- Sunlight
- The Seed Cutters
- Antaeus
- Belderg
- Funeral Rites
- North
- Viking Dublin: Trial Pieces
- The Digging Skeleton
- Bone Dreams
- Come to the Bower
- Bog Queen
- The Grauballe Man
- Punishment
- Strange Fruit
- Kinship
- Ocean’s Love to Ireland
- Aisling
- Act Of Union
- The Betrothal of Cavehill
- Hercules and Antaeus
- Part II
- The Unacknowledged Legislator’s Dream
- Whatever You Say Say Nothing
- Freedman
- Singing School
- 1 The Ministry of Fear
- 2 A Constable Calls
- 3 Orange Drums
- 4 Summer 1969
- 5 Fosterage
- 6 Exposure
- Afterthoughts