The Spirit Level (poetry collection) explained
The Spirit Level is a 1996 poetry collection written by Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. It won the poetry prize for the 1996 Whitbread Awards.[1]
Heaney has been recorded reading this collection on the Seamus Heaney Collected Poems album.
Contents
- The Rain Stick
- To a Dutch Potter in Ireland 1.
- To a Dutch Potter in Ireland 2. After Liberation
- A Brigid's Girdle
- Mint
- A Sofa in the Forties
- Keeping Going
- Two Lorries
- Damson
- Weighing In
- St Kevin and the Blackbird
- The Flight Path 1
- The Flight Path 2
- The Flight Path 3
- The Flight Path 4
- The Flight Path 5
- The Flight Path 6
- An Invocation
- Mycenae Lookout 1. The Watchman's War
- Mycenae Lookout 2. Cassandra
- Mycenae Lookout 3. His Dawn Vision
- Mycenae Lookout 4. The Nights
- Mycenae Lookout 5. The Reverie of Water
- The First Words
- The Gravel Walks
- Whitby-sur-Moyola
- The Thimble
- The Butter-Print
- Remembered Columns
- 'Poet's Chair'
- The Swing
- The Poplar
- Two Stick Drawings (1)
- Two Stick Drawings (2)
- A Call
- The Errand
- A Dog Was Crying Tonight in Wicklow Also
- M.
- An Architect
- The Sharping Stone
- The Strand
- The Walk
- At the Wellhead
- At Banagher
- Tollund
- Postscript
Notes and References
- Book: Bernard O'Donoghue. The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney. 1 January 2009. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-83882-5. xviii.
