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paperback. In Stepping Stones, a book of interviews conducted by Dennis O'Driscoll, the author acknowledged the importance of the poem to his writing, noting that 'there's one Virgilian journey that has indeed been a constant presence, and that is Aeneas' venture into the underworld. In this book, he brings the ancient poem back to life. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 223 x 13. Weight in Grams: 212. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Price sticker inside front flap, otherwise as new
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Edition
First edition
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KSG0031160
ISBN
9780571327317
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 30.00

paperback. An updated selection of all Heaney's books, up to and including "The Haw Lantern", which was published in 1987. The book also includes selections from "Stations", prose poems of 1975 which have never appeared except as a pamphlet. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 197 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 300. Inscribed to Édith Fournier, translator of Samuel Beckett's work, from Eoin O'Brien, friend of Beckett. Very good clean copy. Covers showing light age and shelf wear. Lightly toned, text is crisp and clear and remains a very good copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0029658
ISBN
9780571143726
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 125.00

paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 137 x 11. Weight in Grams: 162. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMK0020352
ISBN
9780571133024
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Starts 'in an age of bare hands and cast iron' and ends 'as the automatic lock/clunks shut' in the eerie conditions of a menaced twentieth-first century. This book includes a number of prose poems and translations. It offers resistance as the poet gathers his staying powers and stands his ground in the hiding places of love and excited language. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 118. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0000421
ISBN
9780571230976
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Composed between the seventh and tenth centuries, this work is the narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. It is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and living on in the exhausted aftermath. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 332
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Edition
Main - bilingual edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
9780571230419
ISBN
9780571230419
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.64

Paperback. Commissioned to mark the centenary of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 2004, this book represents opposing voices as they enact the ancient conflict between family and state in a time of crisis, pitching the morality of private allegiance against that of public service. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 6. Weight in Grams: 92
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571223626
ISBN
9780571223626
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 5.47

hardcover. A collection that 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. It also broaches questions of transmission, as lifelines to the inherited past. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 149 x 14. Weight in Grams: 254. Fine in fine dust wrapper
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Faber and Faber Ltd
Edition
First
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0028241
ISBN
9780571269228
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 40.00

Paperback. 17pp. Fine. The Kenneth Allott Lectures, No. 1, delivered on 9 February 1978. In original wrappers, showing light shelf wear, remains a very fine copy. Keywords - Seamus Heaney
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1978
Publisher
University of Liverpool
Edition
First
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KHS1003442
ISBN
9780906370056
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 95.00

Paperback. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 6. Weight in Grams: 108.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
Edition
Main
SKU
9780571101580
ISBN
9780571101580
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 10.64

Paperback. Elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, 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. This title broaches larger questions of transmission, as lifelines to the inherited past. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 8. Weight in Grams: 134
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Edition
Main
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
SKU
9780571269242
ISBN
9780571269242
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.87

Paperback. Features poems that graphically depict the author's rural upbringing, from the local forge to the banks of Lough Neagh, concluding in the preserving waters of the bogland. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 6. Weight in Grams: 94.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
Edition
Main
SKU
9780571101269
ISBN
9780571101269
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.87

Paperback. First paperback edition - Good copy spine slightly sunned - Includes newsclippings carefully folded with publisher and dates noted - 2/0062 - 24pp. - The Gallery Press, Oldcastle, Co.Meath
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
The Gallery Press Oldcastle, Co.Meath
Number of pages
24
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1984
SKU
KCK0001321
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 175.00

Paperback. A gathering of Seamus Heaney's prose of three decades. Whether autobiographical, topical or specifically literary, these essays and lectures circle the central preoccupying questions: How should a poet live and write? What is his relationship to be to his own voice and place? Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 196 x 129 x 33. Weight in Grams: 518.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
422
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
9780571210916
ISBN
9780571210916
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.38

paperback. An updated selection of all Heaney's books, up to and including "The Haw Lantern", which was published in 1987. The book also includes selections from "Stations", prose poems of 1975 which have never appeared except as a pamphlet. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 197 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 300.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
9780571143726
ISBN
9780571143726
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.16

Paperback. .
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
64
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571230839
ISBN
9780571230839
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.99

Paperback. Robert Henryson was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem is the narrative "Testament of Cresseid", set in the aftermath of the Trojan War, which completes the story of Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde". This work features the translated Seven of the Fables. Translator(s): Heaney, Seamus. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 238.
Edition
Main
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571249664
ISBN
9780571249664
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.59

Paperback. Including a number of prose poems and translations, this book offers resistance as the poet gathers his staying powers and stands his ground in the hiding places of love and excited language. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 196 x 9. Weight in Grams: 126.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571279418
ISBN
9780571279418
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.16

Paperback. Heaney's new collection travels widely in space and time, visiting the sites of the classical world, revisiting the poet's childhood: rural electrification and the light of ancient evenings are reconciled within the orbit of a single lifetime. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 8. Weight in Grams: 126.
Edition
Main
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571207985
ISBN
9780571207985
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.04

Paperback. A collection of elegies and love poems, and a short sonnet sequence which concentrates on such themes as: the individual's responsibility for his own choices, the artist's commitment to his vocation, the vulnerability of all in the face of circumstance and death. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 128 x 8. Weight in Grams: 110.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
80
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571114337
ISBN
9780571114337
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.04

Paperback. Composed towards the end of the first millennium of our era, the Anglo-Saxon poem "Beowulf" is a Northern epic and a classic of European literature. In this new translation, Seamus Heaney has produced a work that is true, line by line, to the original poem. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 178.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571203765
ISBN
9780571203765
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.99

Hardback. Broadside, 12.5 in by 9in. Printed for the Friends of The Cheltenham Festival of Literature. Wood engraving by Miriam Macgregor. Keywords: Broadside - Poetry.
Publisher
Friends of Cheltenham Literature
Condition
Used, Very Good
Format
Hardback
SKU
KHS0077680
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 45.00

Hardback. Broadside, 11in by 15in. Set from Bempo types and printed Letterpress on Nideggen Paper at Sutton Hoo Press in an edition of one hundred and twenty six copies. Beautiful item. Keywords: Poetry - Seamus Heaney Broadside.
Publisher
Sutton Hoo Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
Format
Hardback
SKU
KHS0044568
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 390.00

Paperback. Editor(s): Hughes, Ted; Heaney, Seamus. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 136 x 43. Weight in Grams: 588.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571225842
ISBN
9780571225842
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 17.47

Paperback. .
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571194933
ISBN
9780571194933
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 18.37

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