Field Work by Seamus Heaney
The four years that Seamus Heaney spent escaping the violence of Belfast and relocating with his family to Glanmore, County Wicklow, are chronicled in Field Work. Heaney created poems with new vigour and maturity after heeding “an early warning system to get back inside my own head,” shifting from the political themes of his seminal collection North to a more intimate, reflective attitude to the world and to his own work. Field Work explores “basic themes of person and place, the mutuality of ourselves and the planet” through the use of meditative music.
Field Work by Seamus Heaney
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Even for a poet, poetry is not always simple to understand. However, this small collection conjures up a feeling like singing water. It calms you and helps you fall asleep.
He was a fantastic poet who won the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature. Even though many of his novels are currently out of print, read them if you come across them. The majority of us are familiar with Beowulf, but he also wrote a number of beautiful, heartfelt poems.
