Male : Poet. Nobel Prize for Literature 1995. Married Marie Devlin in 1965. Lives in Dublin

Nationality : Irish Place of Birth : Castledawson, Co Derry

Date of Birth : 1939

Other Work : Teacher & Lecturer (at Queen's University, Belfast)

Education : St Columba's College, Derry & Queen's University, Belfast

1964-1970
(In) Outposts 62 : "The Play Way" (1964)
Eleven Poems (1965 Festival Publications, Belfast) - [published as a booklet whilst still a student]
Offered in 1999 for £350
Death of a Naturalist (1966 Faber) (1966 OUP, US)
UK First offered at £425 in 1999
(In) Outposts 68 : "The Salmon Fisher to the Salmon" (1966)
'Follower' & 'Scaffolding' (1967 Summer, in "Threshold")
'The Thatcher' (1968 in "Honest Ulsterman" No 6)
Room to Rhyme (1968 Arts Council of Northern Ireland) - with David Hammond & Michael Longley
(In) Phoenix No 3 " The Plantation" (1968)
(In) Phoenix No 4 "Shoreline" (1968)
A Lough Neagh Sequence (1969 Phoenix Pamphlet Poets Press) - Ltd Ed 1000, of which 50 signed
Door Into the Dark (1969 Faber) (1969 OUP, US)
'Wife's Tale', 'Undine' & 'The Forge' (1969 in "Poetry")
(In) Honest Ulsterman No 19 : "Offerings" (1969)
Night Drive : Poems (1970 Gilbertson, Credition) - Signed Ltd ed 100
A Boy Driving His Father to Confession (1970 Sceptre Press) - 150 copies, plus 50 signed
[One UK signed limited first sold at auction in 1999 for £805]
(In) Poems of the Sixties (Ed by F E S Finn) (1970 Murray)

1971-1975
(In) Three poems in .. "Aquarius Irish Number" (1971)
Land (1971 Poem of the Moth Club) - signed broadside
Wintering Out (1972 Faber) (1973 OUP, US)
'Limbo' and 'Gifts of Rain' (1973 in "Poetry")
The Fire i' the Flint : Reflections on the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins
(1975 OUP/British Academy , US) - lecture
North (1975 Faber) (1976 OUP, NY)
Bog Poems (1975 Rainbow Press) - 150 signed. Barrie Cooke
Stations (1975 Ulsterman, Belfast)

1976-1980
In Their Element : A Selection of Poems (1977 Arts Council of N Ireland) - with Derek Mahon
After Summer (1978 Gallery Press) - 250 signed copies
Signed Edition offered for £285 in 1999
The Makings of a Music : Reflections on the Poetry of Wordsworth & Yeats (1978 Liverpool Univ)
Robert Lowell - A Memorial Lecture and an Eulogy (1978 PP) (1978 Faber)
Ugolino (1978 Carpenter, Dublin) -125 signed Louis Le Brocquy
Field Work (1979 Faber) (1979 Farrar Straus)
'An Afterwards' & 'Homecomings' (1979 Dublin Arts Festival)
Hedge School : Sonnets from Glanmore (1979 Salem, Oregon) - Claire Van Vliet
Gravities : A Collection of Poems & Drawings (1979 Charlotte Press) - Noel Connor
(In) two poems in ... "Aquarius" No 12 (1980)
Selected Poems 1965-1975 (1980 Faber)
Preoccupations : Selected Prose 1968-1978 (1980 Faber £7.95)

1981-1983
Holly (1981 Loughcrew)
A Personal Selection (1982 Ulster Museum) - exhibition catalogue
Poems and a Memoir (1982 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 2000 Signed by Heaney & Henry Pearson
Offered in 2000 for £550
(Ed) The Rattle Bag : An Anthology of Poetry (1982 Faber) - selected by Heaney & Hughes
(In) Two poems in .. "Aquarius" No 15/16 (1983)
Sweeney Astray : A Version from the Irish (1983 Field Day Theatre, Derry) (1983 FSG)
(1984 Faber £6.95)
Among Schoolchildren (1983 Dept of Further Prof Studies in Education, Queen's Univ of Belfast)
An Open Letter (1983 Field Day Pamphlet No 2, Derry)

1984-1985
Station Island (1984 Faber £6.95) (1984 FS)
Hailstones (1984 Gallery Press, Dublin) - Ltd Signed Ed 250. Ltd Unsigned Ed 500
Verses for a Fordham Commencement (1984 Nadja, NY) - Ltd Ed 226
From the Republic of Conscience (1985 Amnesty International) - Ltd Ed 2000
Place and Displacement: Recent Poetry of Northern Ireland (1985 Trustees of Dove Cottage, Grasmere)

1986-1988
(In) Six poems in ... "Honest Ulsterman" (1986 Spring)
Towards a Collaboration (1986 Arts Council of Northern Ireland) - Felim Egan
The Haw Lantern (1987 Faber) (1987 FSG - 150 numbered/signed)
New Selected Poems 1966-1987 (1987 Faber £4.99)
The Sounds of Rain (1988 Emory University, Atlanta) - Ltd Ed 325
The Government of the Tongue : Essays (1988 Faber) (1989 FS)

1989-1990
An Upstairs Look (1989 Linen Hall Library) - with Michael Longley. Ltd Ed 500
Conlan (1989 Coisceim Press)
Agenda Magazine : 50th Birthday Issue (1989 London)
The Place of Writing (1989 The Scholars Press, Atlanta, Georgia)
Railway Children (1989 Poems on the Underground) - 200 copies of a broadside
The Fire Gaze (1989 Cheltenham Festival of Literature) - broadside
Four Poem Posters (1989 Whittington Press) - with Laurie Lee, Jenny Joseph &
Laurence Sail. Ltd ed 125
The Cure at Troy (1990 Field Day, Derry) - 500 signed
The Cure at Troy (1990 Field Day, Derry) - theatre programme with notes by Heaney. 500 signed
The Tree Clock (1990 Linen Hall Library, Belfast) - Ltd Ed 750. Signed Ltd Ed 100
The Tree Clock (1990 Faber)
The Redress of Poetry (1990 Clarendon Press, Oxford) - essay
New Selected Poems 1966-1987 (1990 Faber) - Signed Ed 125 (1990 FS)
The Place of Waiting (1990 Scholars Press, US)
The Earth House (1990 Cheltenham Festival of Literature) - broadside
The Birmingham Six : An Appalling Vista (1990 Dublin) - 100 signed by the contributors. et al

Since 1991
Seeing Things (1991 Faber £12.99) - Signed Ltd Ed 250
Mint (1991 Concord, New Hampshire) - Mary Azarian. Broadsheet
The Water Pause (1991 Friends of the Cheltenham Literature Festival) - broadside
Iron Spike (1992 Ewert, Concord US) - illus broadside
Dylan the Durable ? (1992 Bennington College) - Ltd Ed 1000
The Gravel Walks (1992 Lenoir Rhyne College)
The Air Station (1992 Friends of the Cheltenham Literature Festival)
- broadside 125 signed/numbered
Sweeney's Flight (1992 Faber £20) (1992 FS) - photos by Rachel Giese
The Midnight Verdict (1993 Gallery) - 925 copies. Signed Ltd Ed 75
Joy or Night : Last Things in the Poetry of W B Yeats & Philip Larkin (1993 Univ College of Swansea)
Keeping Going (1993 Ewert)
Poet's Chair (1993 Ewert)
Crediting Poetry (1995 Gallery Press, Dublin)
Laments : Jan Kochanowski (1530-1584) (1995 Faber £12.99 & £6.99) - with Stanislaw Baranczak
The Redress of Poetry : Oxford Lectures (1995 Faber £15.99 & £7.99)
The Spirit Level (1996 Faber £7.99) - WHITBREAD PRIZE
(Ed) The School Bag (1997 Faber £18.50 & £9.99) - with Ted Hughes
Opened Ground : Selected Poems 1966-1996 (1998 Faber 320)
Beowulf (1999 Faber) - WHITBREAD PRIZE
Electric Light (2001 Faber £14.99)
Finders Keepers : Selected Prose 1971-2001 (2002 Faber £20)
(Trans) Antigone : The Burial at Thebes (2004 Faber £12.99)

READING
(Ed) Edward Broadbridge : Seamus Heaney (1977 Copenhagen)
Robert Buttel : Seamus Heaney (1975 Lewisburg, Penn)
M P Hederman : Seamus Heaney - the Reluctant Poet (1979 Crane Bag)
Tony Curtis : The Art of Seamus Heaney (1982 Poetry Wales Press, Bridgend)
(1994 Seren Press £9.95 3rd Ed)
Blake Morrison : Seamus Heaney (1982 London)
Neil Corcoran : A Student's Guide to Seamus Heaney (1986 Faber)
Michael Durkan : Seamus Heaney - A Checklist for a Bibliography (1986 Irish Univ Review)
Thomas C Foster : Seamus Heaney (1989 O'Brien)
Ronald Tamplin : Seamus Heaney (1989 Open UP)
Henry Hart : Seamus Heaney - Poet of Contrary Progressions (1992 Syracuse UP)
Michael Parker : Seamus Heaney - The Making of a Poet (1993 Macmillan £27.50 & £9.95)
Neil Corcoran : The Poetry of Seamus Heaney - A Critical Study (1998 Faber £9.99)
Helen Vendler : Seamus Heaney (1998 Harvard UP $22.95)