Informationen zum Autor Seamus Heaney was born in County Derry in Northern Ireland. Death of a Naturalist ! his first collection of poems! appeared in 1966 and since then he has published poetry! criticism and translations - including Beowulf (1999) - which have established him as one of the leading poets now at work. In 1995 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. District and Circle (2006) was awarded the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2006. Stepping Stones ! a book of interviews conducted by Dennis O'Driscoll! appeared in 2008. In 2009 he received the David Cohen Prize for Literature. Klappentext Paperback edition of the Nobel Prize winning Heaney's 12th collection of poems, which won the Forward Poetry Prize 2010 and was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. '...his best single volume for many years, and one that contains some of the best poems he has written...' Colm Toibin, "Guardian" Human Chain by Seamus Heaney is the last collection of poems by the Nobel Prize-winning poet and translator. Zusammenfassung Seamus Heaney's new collection elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now, inside an intently remembered present - the stepping stones of the day, the weight and heft of what is passed from hand to hand, lifted and lowered.

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Human Chain by Seamus Heaney is the last collection of poems by the Nobel Prize-winning poet and translator.

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Seamus Heaney was born in County Derry in Northern Ireland. Death of a Naturalist, his first collection of poems, appeared in 1966 and since then he has published poetry, criticism and translations - including Beowulf (1999) - which have established him as one of the leading poets now at work. In 1995 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. District and Circle (2006) was awarded the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2006. Stepping Stones, a book of interviews conducted by Dennis O'Driscoll, appeared in 2008. In 2009 he received the David Cohen Prize for Literature.

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Paperback edition of the Nobel Prize winning Heaney's 12th collection of poems, which won the Forward Poetry Prize 2010 and was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. '...his best single volume for many years, and one that contains some of the best poems he has written...' Colm Toibin, "Guardian"

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Seamus Heaney's new collection elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now, inside an intently remembered present - the stepping stones of the day, the weight and heft of what is passed from hand to hand, lifted and lowered.