Station Island, published by Faber and Faber in 1984, is Seamus Heaney’s seventh collection. Heaney is in his mid-forties. The totality of his collections over more than half a century since Death of a Naturalist (1966) have confirmed his place at the very top of the premier league of poets writing in English.
- Navigating the ‘Station Island’ Collection
- Foreword
- The Underground
- La Toilette
- Sloe Gin
- Away from it All
- Chekhov on Sakhalin
- Sandstone Keepsake
- Shelf Life
- A Migration
- Last Look
- Remembering Malibu
- Making Strange
- The Birthplace
- Changes
- An Ulster Twilight
- A Bat on the Road
- A Hazel Stick for Catherine Ann
- A Kite for Michael and Christopher
- The Railway Children
- Sweetpea
- An Aisling in the Burren
- Widgeon
- Sheelagh na Gig
- The Loaning
- The Sandpit
- The King of the Ditchbacks
- Part Two: Station Island – the Sequence
- Station Island – the Sequence I
- Station Island – the Sequence II
- Station Island – the Sequence III
- Station Island – the Sequence IV
- Station Island – the Sequence V
- Station Island – the Sequence VI
- Station Island – the Sequence VII
- Station Island – the Sequence VIII
- Station Island – the Sequence IX
- Station Island – the Sequence X
- Station Island – the Sequence XI
- Station Island – the Sequence XII
- Part Three: Sweeney Redivivus
- The First Gloss
- Sweeney Redevivus
- Unwinding
- The First Kingdom
- Alerted
- Drifting Off
- The First Flight
- In the Beech
- In the Chestnut Tree
- A Waking Dream
- The Scribes
- The Master
- The Hermit
- The Cleric
- Sweeney’s Returns
- Holly
- An Artist
- The Old Icons
- In Illo Tempore
- On the Road
- Afterthoughts