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 Print
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.

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