The Poems of Seamus Heaney

"Though Seamus Heaney died in 2013, his poems are still everywhere in the atmosphere of contemporary poetry and are now, at last, collected in one mammoth volume. We urgently need Heaney’s moral clarity and profound nuance, his capacity to embody the earthiness of the Earth in words, his bottomless knowledge of the history of language, which connects us across the ages like a mycelial network. This is one of the books of our time."