| Seamus Heaney (b. 1939) was the eldest child of nine born to a farming family in County Derry, Northern Ireland. He won a scholarship to St Columb's College, Derry, beginning an academic career that would lead, through Queen's University Belfast, where his first books of poems were written, to positions including Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard and the Oxford Professor of Poetry. As a poet, Heaney has become both critically feted and publicly popular. Among his many awards are the Nobel Prize for Literature 1995 and the Whitbread prize (twice); he was made a Commandeur de L'Ordre des Arts et Lettres in 1996.
From Death of a Naturalist
1 Death of a Naturalist 2.07
2 Blackberry Picking 1.43
3 Mid-term Break 1.32
From Door into the Dark
4 The Peninsula 1.12
5 Bogland 1.19
From Wintering Out
6 Anahorish 0.44
7 Broagh 0.38
8 The Tollund Man 1.49
From North
9 Mossbawn Sunlight 1.08
10 The Grabaulle Man 1.38
11 Exposure 1.57
From Field Work
12 Oysters 1.27
13 Casualty 4.16
14 From Glanmore Sonnets: 'Dogger, Rockall, Malin...' 1.07
15 The Harvest Bow 1.50
From Station Island
16 The Underground 1.08
17 A Kite for Michael and Christopher 1.20
18 The Railway Children 0.51
19 Station Island Section 7 4.29
From The Haw Lantern
20 The Haw Lantern 0.59
21 From Clearances: sonnets 2, 3, 5, 8 4.40
From Seeing Things
22 Fosterling 1.04
23 The annals say... 0.57
24 Seeing Things 4.03
25 The Skylight 0.58
From The Spirit Level
26 Two Lorries 2.38
27 St Kevin and the Blackbird 1.45
28 A Call 1.09
29 Postscript 1.05
From Electric Light
30 Perch 0.56
31 Bann Valley Eclogue 3.28
32 Electric Light 3.01
From District and Circle
33 The Blackbird of Glanmore 1.47
Total length of the recording 61.01
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