Seamus Heaney Collected Poems


Collected Poems is a spoken-word recording of the Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney reading his own work. It was released by RTÉ to mark his 70th birthday, which occurred on 13 April 2009. The fifteen-CD boxed set spans 556 tracks in over twelve hours of oral performance by the poet. The entire work was also released on one disc in MP3 format.
All of Heaney's poetry collections are performed except his final one, Human Chain, which was published in the following year. The poems are presented in the chronological order of Heaney's first eleven poetry collections. A 58-page by Irish poet Peter Sirr is included in a booklet.

Collection summary

Disc 1: Death of a Naturalist – 1966
01. Digging

02. Death of a Naturalist

03. The Barn

04. An Advancement of Learning

05. Blackberry-Picking

06. Churning Day

07. The Early Purges

08. Follower

09. Ancestral Photograph

10. Mid-Term Break

11. Dawn Shoot

12. At a Potato Digging i

13. At a Potato Digging ii

14. At a Potato Digging iii

15. At a Potato Digging iv

16. For the Commander of the 'Eliza'

17. The Diviner

18. Turkeys Observed

19. Cow in Calf

20. Trout

21. Waterfall

22. Docker

23. Poor Women in a City Church

24. Gravities

25. Twice Shy

26. Valediction

27. Lovers on Aran

28. Poem

29. Honeymoon Flight

30. Scaffolding

31. Storm on the Island

32. Synge on Aran

33. Saint Francis and the Birds

34. In Small Townlands

35. The Folk Singers

36. The Play Way

37. Personal Helicon



Disc 2: Door into the Dark – 1969
01. Night-Piece

02. Gone

03. Dream

04. The Outlaw

05. The Salmon Fisher to the Salmon

06. The Forge

07. Thatcher

08. The Peninsula

09. In Gallarus Oratory

10. Girls Bathing, Galway, 1965

11. Requiem for the Croppies

12. Rite of Spring

13. Undine

14. The Wife's Tale

15. Mother

16. Cana Revisited

17. Elegy for a Stillborn Child

18. Victorian Guitar

19. Night Drive

20. At Ardboe Point

21. Relic of Memory

22. A Lough Neagh Sequence 1. Up the Shore

23. A Lough Neagh Sequence 2. Beyond Sargasso

24. A Lough Neagh Sequence 3. Bait

25. A Lough Neagh Sequence 4. Setting

26. A Lough Neagh Sequence 5. Lifting

27. A Lough Neagh Sequence 6. The Return

28. A Lough Neagh Sequence 7. Vision

29. The Given Note

30. Whinlands

31. The Plantation

32. Shoreline

33. Bann Clay

34. Bogland



Disc 3: Wintering Out – 1972
01. For David Hammond and Michael Longley

02. Fodder

03. Bog Oak

04. Anahorish

05. Servant Boy

06. The Last Mummer

07. Land

08. Gifts of Rain

09. Toome

10. Broagh

11. Oracle

12. The Backward Look

13. Traditions

14. A New Song

15. The Other Side

16. The Wool Trade

17. Linen Town

18. A Northern Hoard 1. Roots

19. A Northern Hoard 2. No Man's Land

20. A Northern Hoard 3. Stump

21. A Northern Hoard 4. No Sanctuary

22. A Northern Hoard 5. Tinder

23. Midnight

24. The Tollund man

25. Nerthus

26. Cairn-maker

27. Navvy

28. Veteran's Dream

29. Augury

30. Wedding Day

31. Mother of the Groom

32. Summer Home

33. Serenades

34. Somnambulist

35. A Winter's Tale

36. Shore Woman

37. Maighdean Mara

38. Limbo

39. Bye-Child

40. Good-night

41. First Calf

42. May

43. Fireside

44. Dawn

45. Travel

46. Westering



Disc 4: North – 1975
01. Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication to Mary Heaney 1. Sunlight

02. Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication to Mary Heaney 2. The Seed

03. Antaeus

04. Belderg

05. Funeral Rites

06. North

07. Viking Dublin: Trial Pieces

08. The Digging Skeleton

09. Bone Dreams i

10. Bone Dreams ii

11. Bone Dreams iii

12. Bone Dreams iv

13. Bone Dreams v

14. Bone Dreams vi

15. Come to the Bower

16. Bog Queen

17. The Grauballe Man

18. Punishment

19. Strange Fruit

20. Kinship i

21. Kinship ii

22. Kinship iii

23. Kinship iv

24. Kinship v

25. Kinship vi

26. Ocean's Love to Ireland

27. Aisling

28. Act of Union

29. The Betrothal of Cavehill

30. Hercules and Antaeus

31. The Unacknowledged Legislator's Dream

32. Whatever You Say Say Nothing i

33. Whatever You Say Say Nothing ii

34. Whatever You Say Say Nothing iii

35. Whatever You Say Say Nothing iv

36. Freedman

37. Singing School

38. Singing School 1. The Ministry of Fear

39. Singing School 2. A Constable Calls

40. Singing School 3. Orange Drums, Tyrone, 1966

41. Singing School 4. Summer 1969

42. Singing School 5. Fosterage

43. Singing School 6. Exposure



Disc 5: Field Work – 1979
01. Oysters

02. Triptych I After a Killing

03. Triptych II Sibyl

04. Triptych III At the Water's Edge

05. The Toome Road

06. A Drink of Water

07. The Strand at Lough Beg

08. A Postcard from North Antrim

09. Casualty

10. The Badgers

11. The Singer's House

12. The Guttural Muse

13. In Memoriam Sean O'Riada

14. Elegy

15. Glanmore Sonnets I

16. Glanmore Sonnets II

17. Glanmore Sonnets III

18. Glanmore Sonnets IV

19. Glanmore Sonnets V

20. Glanmore Sonnets VI

21. Glanmore Sonnets VII

22. Glanmore Sonnets VIII

23. Glanmore Sonnets IX

24. Glanmore Sonnets X

25. September Song

26. An Afterwards

27. High Summer

28. The Otter

29. The Skunk

30. Homecomings

31. A Dream of Jealousy

32. Polder

33. Field Work I

34. Field Work II

35. Field Work III

36. Field Work IV

37. Song

38. Leavings

39. The Harvest Bow

40. In Memoriam Francis Ledwidge

41. Ugolino



Disc 6: Station Island – 1984
PART ONE
01. The Underground

02. La Toilette

03. Sloe Gin

04. Away from it All

05. Chekhov on Sakhalin

06. Sandstone Keepsake

07. Shelf Life 1. Granite Chip

08. Shelf Life 2. Old Smoothing Iron

09. Shelf Life 3. Old Pewter

10. Shelf Life 4. Iron Spike

11. Shelf Life 5. Stone from Delphi

12. Shelf Life 6. A Snowshoe

13. A Migration

14. Last Look

15. Remembering Malibu

16. Making Strange

17. The Birthplace

18. Changes

19. An Ulster Twilight

20. A Bat on the Road

21. A Hazel Stick for Catherine Ann

22. A Kite for Michael and Christopher

23. The Railway Children

24. Sweetpea

25. An Aisling in the Burren

26. Widgeon

27. Sheelagh na Gig

28. The Loaning

29. The Sandpit 1. 1946

30. The Sandpit 2. The Demobbed Bricklayer

31. The Sandpit 3. The Sand Boom

32. The Sandpit 4. What the Brick Keeps

33. The King of the Ditchbacks I

34. The King of the Ditchbacks II

35. The King of the Ditchbacks III



Disc 7: Station Island – 1984
PART TWO - STATION ISLAND
01. Station Island I

02. Station Island II

03. Station Island III

04. Station Island IV

05. Station Island V

06. Station Island VI

07. Station Island VII

08. Station Island VIII

09. Station Island IX

10. Station Island X

11. Station Island XI

12. Station Island XII
PART THREE - SWEENEY REDIVIVUS
13. The First Gloss

14. Sweeney Redivivus

15. Unwinding

16. In the Beech

17. The First Kingdom

18. The First Flight

19. Drifting Off

20. Alerted

21. The Cleric

22. The Hermit

23. The Master

24. The Scribes

25. A Waking Dream

26. In the Chestnut Tree

27. Sweeney's Returns

28. Holly

29. An Artist

30. The Old Icons

31. In Illo Tempore

32. On the Road



Disc 8: The Haw Lantern – 1987
01. Alphabets

02. Terminus

03. From the Frontier of Writing

04. The Haw Lantern

05. The Stone Grinder

06. A Daylight Art

07. Parable Island

08. From the Republic of Conscience

09. Hailstones

10. Two Quick Notes

11. The Stone Verdict

12. From the Land of the Unspoken

13. A Ship of Death

14. The Spoonbait

15. In Memoriam: Robert Fitzgerald

16. The Old Team

17. Clearances: In Memoriam M.K.H.

18. Clearances 1

19. Clearances 2

20. Clearances 3

21. Clearances 4

22. Clearances 5

23. Clearances 6

24. Clearances 7

25. Clearances 8

26. The Milk Factory

27. The Summer of Lost Rachel

28. The Wishing Tree

29. A Postcard from Iceland

30. A Peacock's Feather

31. Grotus and Coventina

32. Holding Course

33. The Song of the Bullets

34. Wolfe Tone

35. A Shooting Script

36. From the Canton of Expectation

37. The Mud Vision

38. The Disappearing Island

39. The Riddle



Disc 9: Seeing Things – 1991
01. The Golden Bough
PART I
02. The Journey Back

03. Markings

04. Three Drawings 1. The Point

05. Three Drawings 2. The Pulse

06. Three Drawings 3. A Haul

07. Casting and Gathering

08. Man and Boy

09. Seeing Things I

10. Seeing Things II

11. Seeing Things III

12. The Ash Plant

13. 1.1.87

14. An August Night

15. Field of Vision

16. The Pitchfork

17. A Basket of Chestnuts

18. The Biretta

19. The Settle Bed

20. The Schoolbag

21. Glanmore Revisited 1. Scrabble

22. Glanmore Revisited 2. The Cot

23. Glanmore Revisited 3. Scene Shifts

24. Glanmore Revisited 4. 1973

25. Glanmore Revisited 5. Lustral Sonnet

26. Glanmore Revisited 6. Bedside Reading

27. Glanmore Revisited 7. The Skylight

28. A Pillowed Head

29. A Royal Prospect

30. A Retrospect

31. The Rescue

32. Wheels within Wheels

33. The Sounds of Rain

34. Fosterling



Disc 10: Seeing Things – 1991
PART II - SQUARINGS
1: Lightenings
01. Lightenings i

02. Lightenings ii

03. Lightenings iii

04. Lightenings iv

05. Lightenings v

06. Lightenings vi

07. Lightenings vii

08. Lightenings viii

09. Lightenings ix

10. Lightenings x

11. Lightenings xi

12. Lightenings xii
2: Settings
13. Settings xiii

14. Settings xiv

15. Settings xv

16. Settings xvi

17. Settings xvii

18. Settings xviii

19. Settings xix

20. Settings xx

21. Settings xxi

22. Settings xxii

23. Settings xxiii

24. Settings xxiv
3: Crossings
25. Crossings xxv

26. Crossings xxvi

27. Crossings xxvii

28. Crossings xxviii

29. Crossings xxix

30. Crossings xxx

31. Crossings xxxi

32. Crossings xxxii

33. Crossings xxxiii

34. Crossings xxxiv

35. Crossings xxxv

36. Crossings xxxvi
4. Squarings
37. Squarings xxxvii

38. Squarings xxxviii

39. Squarings xxxix

40. Squarings xl

41. Squarings xli

42. Squarings xlii

43. Squarings xliii

44. Squarings xliv

45. Squarings xlv

46. Squarings xlvi

47. Squarings xlvii

48. Squarings xlviii

49. The Crossing



Disc 11: The Spirit Level – 1996
01. The Rain Stick

02. To a Dutch Potter in Ireland 1.

03. To a Dutch Potter in Ireland 2. After Liberation

04. A Brigid's Girdle

05. Mint

06. A Sofa in the Forties

07. Keeping Going

08. Two Lorries

09. Damson

10. Weighing In

11. St Kevin and the Blackbird

12. The Flight Path 1

13. The Flight Path 2

14. The Flight Path 3

15. The Flight Path 4

16. The Flight Path 5

17. The Flight Path 6

18. An Invocation

19. Mycenae Lookout 1. The Watchman's War

20. Mycenae Lookout 2. Cassandra

21. Mycenae Lookout 3. His Dawn Vision

22. Mycenae Lookout 4. The Nights

23. Mycenae Lookout 5. The Reverie of Water



Disc 12: The Spirit Level – 1996
01. The First Words

02. The Gravel Walks

03. Whitby-sur-Moyola

04. The Thimble

05. The Butter-Print

06. Remembered Columns

07. 'Poet's Chair'

08. The Swing

09. The Poplar

10. Two Stick Drawings

11. Two Stick Drawings

12. A Call

13. The Errand

14. A Dog Was Crying Tonight in Wicklow Also

15. M.

16. An Architect

17. The Sharping Stone

18. The Strand

19. The Walk

20. At the Wellhead

21. At Banagher

22. Tollund

23. Postscript



Disc 13: Electric Light – 2001
01. At Toomebridge

02. Perch

03. Lupins

04. Out of the Bag I

05. Out of the Bag II

06. Out of the Bag III

07. Out of the Bag IV

08. Bann Valley Eclogue

09. Montana

10. The Loose Box

11. Turpin Song

12. The Border Campaign

13. Known World

14. The Little Canticles of Asturias 1

15. The Little Canticles of Asturias 2

16. The Little Canticles of Asturias 3

17. Ballynahinch Lake

18. The Clothes Shrine

19. Red, White and Blue 1. Red

20. Red, White and Blue 2. White

21. Red, White and Blue 3. Blue

22. Virgil: Eclogue IX

23. Glanmore Eclogue

24. Sonnets from Hellas 1. Into Arcadia

25. Sonnets from Hellas 2. Conkers

26. Sonnets from Hellas 3. Pylos

27. Sonnets from Hellas 4. The Augean Stables

28. Sonnets from Hellas 5. Castalian Spring

29. Sonnets from Hellas 6. Desfina



Disc 14: Electric Light – 2001
01. The Gaeltacht

02. The Real Name

03. The Bookcase

04. Vitruviana

05. Ten Glosses 1. The Marching Season

06. Ten Glosses 2. The Catechism

07. Ten Glosses 3. The Bridge

08. Ten Glosses 4. A Suit

09. Ten Glosses 5. The Party

10. Ten Glosses 6. W. H. Auden 1907-73

11. Ten Glosses 7. The Lesson

12. Ten Glosses 8. Moling's Gloss

13. Ten Glosses 9. Colly

14. Ten Glosses 10. A Norman Simile

15. The Fragment
II
16. On His Work in the English Tongue 1

17. On His Work in the English Tongue 2

18. On His Work in the English Tongue 3

19. On His Work in the English Tongue 4

20. On His Work in the English Tongue 5

21. Audenesque

22. To the Shade of Zbigniew Herbert

23. "Would They Had Stay'd"

24. Late in the Day

25. Arion

26. Bodies and Souls

27. Clonmany to Ahascragh

28. Sruth

29. Seeing the Sick

30. Electric Light



Disc 15: District and Circle – 2006
01. The Turnip-Snedder

02. A Shiver

03. Polish Sleepers

04. Anahorish 1944

05. To Mick Joyce in Heaven

06. The Aerodrome

07. Anything Can Happen

08. Helmet

09. Out of Shot

10.

11. District and Circle

12. District and Circle

13. District and Circle

14. District and Circle

15. District and Circle

16. To George Seferis in the Underworld

17. Wordsworth's Skates

18. The Harrow-Pin

19. Poet to Blacksmith

20. Midnight Anvil

21. Súgán

22. Senior Infants 1. The Sally Rod

23. Senior Infants 2. A Chow

24. Senior Infants 3. One Christmas Day in the Morning

25. The Nod

26. A Clip

27. Edward Thomas on the Lagans Road

28. Found Prose 1. The Lagans Road

29. Found Prose 2. Tall Dames

30. Found Prose 3. Boarders

31. The Lift

32. Nonce Words

33. Stern

34. Out of This World 1. "Like everybody else..."

35. Out of This World 2. Brancardier

36. Out of This World 3. Saw Music

37. In Iowa

38. Höfn

39. On the Spot

40. The Tollund Man in Springtime

41. The Tollund Man in Springtime

42. The Tollund Man in Springtime

43. The Tollund Man in Springtime

44. The Tollund Man in Springtime

45. The Tollund Man in Springtime

46. Moyulla

47. Planting the Alder

48. Tate's Avenue

49. A Hagging Match

50. Fiddleheads

51. To Pablo Neruda in Tamlaghtduff

52. Home Help 1. Helping Sarah

53. Home Help 2. Chairing Mary

54. Rilke: The Apple Orchard

55. Quitting Time

56. Home Fires 1. A Scuttle for Dorothy Wordsworth

57. Home Fires 2. A Stove Lid for W. H. Auden

58. The Birch Grove

59. Cavafy: "The rest I'll speak of to the ones below in Hades"

60. In a Loaning

61. The Blackbird of Glanmore