Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966-1996

Noted for its concreteness and musicality, Seamus Heany's poetry is internationally acclaimed for its ability to unite the ethical and the aesthetic, the matter-of-fact and the marvelous. This volume gathers the landmark poems from Heaney's twelve previous collections, and brings the reader up to date with the work Heaney has published since 1987. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995.