Death of a Naturalist

Death of a Naturalist
ISBN: 9780571328802
Publication Date: 24 February 2016

The classic collection reissued in a beautiful new hardback edition.

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.

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.