Description
Spanning three decades of work, this landmark selection traces a poet’s evolving engagement with rural memory, Irish identity, political conflict, family, faith, and the nature of language. From vividly grounded images of fields, homes, tools, and childhood to increasingly abstract and visionary meditations, the poems reveal how personal experience becomes a way of confronting history and moral complexity. The collection charts a movement from the pastoral landscapes of Northern Ireland through the pressures of the Troubles toward a more expansive, inward, and allegorical vision. Culminating in the poet’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech, it offers a richly layered portrait of an artist opening familiar ground to new forms of understanding.
Available Editions
paperback
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published Jan 1, 1998
443 pages
ISBN: 0374235171
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Details
First Published
1998
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Opened Ground by Seamus Heaney.