"His is "close-up" poetry - close up to thought, to the world, to the emotions. Few writers at work today, in verse or fiction, can give the sense of rich, fecund, lived life that Heaney does". (John Banville). "More than any other poet since Wordsworth he can make us understand that the outside world is not outside, but what we are made of". (John Carey). "Heaney's voice, by turns mythological and journalistic, rural and sophisticated, reminiscent and impatient, stern and yielding, curt and expansive, is one of a suppleness almost equal to consciousness itself". (Helen Vendler).
- ISBN13 9780571321742
- Publish Date 6 November 2014 (first published 4 March 2002)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 1 June 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English