New Selected Poems 1966-1987
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| New Selected Poems 1966–1987 | |
| Author | Seamus Heaney |
|---|---|
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Faber and Faber |
| Publication date | 1990 (1st edition) |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 245 |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-571-14372-5 (hardback) ISBN 0-571-14372-5 (paperback) |
New Selected Poems 1966-1987 is a collection of poems from Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney published in 1990 by Faber and Faber. It includes selections from each of Heaney's seven first volumes of verse: Death of a Naturalist (1966), Door into the Dark (1969), Wintering Out (1972), North (1975), Field Work (1979), Station Island (1984), and The Haw Lantern (1987). It also includes several prose poems from Heaney's limited volume Stations (1975), as well as excerpts from Sweeney Astray (1983), Heaney's verse translation of the Irish legend Buile Shuibhne.

