Field Work

Name: Field Work
Author: Seamus Heaney

by Seamus Heaney

Poetry exploring love, loss, and Northern Irish landscape and cultural belonging

Find on Amazon

About the author

Seamus Heaney

Irish poet from Northern Ireland who won the Nobel Prize in 1995. Death of a Naturalist and North are early masterpieces, and his translations of Beowulf and Aeneid show his range.

More by Seamus Heaney

Death of a NaturalistDebut poems about Irish rural life, nature observation, and formative experience
NorthPoems engaging Irish history, archaeology, and violence with linguistic precision
Station IslandPoems featuring ghostly encounters and spiritual questing among Irish literary figures
The Spirit LevelLate poems meditating on hope, human connection, and moral equilibrium