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.
The classic collection reissued in a beautiful new hardback edition.
About the Author
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.
Book Information
ISBN 9780571328802
Author Seamus Heaney
Format Hardback
Page Count 64
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publisher Faber & Faber
Weight(grams) 200g
Dimensions(mm) 224mm * 146mm * 11mm
