Collected Poems is a spoken-word recording of the Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney reading his own work. It was released by RTÃÂ to mark his 70th birthday, which occurred on 13 April 2009. The fifteen-CD boxed set spans 556 tracks in over twelve hours of oral performance by the poet (some poems span multiple tracks). The entire work was also released on one disc in MP3 format.
All of Heaney's poetry collections are performed except his final one, Human Chain, which was published in the following year. The poems are presented in the chronological order of Heaney's first eleven poetry collections. A 58-page <span class="plainlinks">essay about Heaney</span> by Irish poet Peter Sirr is included in a booklet.
Disc 1: Death of a Naturalist â 1966
01. Digging <br /> 02. Death of a Naturalist <br /> 03. The Barn <br /> 04. An Advancement of Learning<br /> 05. Blackberry-Picking <br /> 06. Churning Day <br /> 07. The Early Purges <br /> 08. Follower <br /> 09. Ancestral Photograph <br /> 10. Mid-Term Break <br /> 11. Dawn Shoot <br /> 12. At a Potato Digging i <br /> 13. At a Potato Digging ii <br /> 14. At a Potato Digging iii <br /> 15. At a Potato Digging iv <br /> 16. For the Commander of the 'Eliza' <br /> 17. The Diviner <br /> 18. Turkeys Observed <br /> 19. Cow in Calf <br /> 20. Trout <br /> 21. Waterfall <br /> 22. Docker <br /> 23. Poor Women in a City Church <br /> 24. Gravities <br /> 25. Twice Shy <br /> 26. Valediction <br /> 27. Lovers on Aran <br /> 28. Poem <br /> 29. Honeymoon Flight <br /> 30. Scaffolding <br /> 31. Storm on the Island <br /> 32. Synge on Aran <br /> 33. Saint Francis and the Birds <br /> 34. In Small Townlands <br /> 35. The Folk Singers <br /> 36. The Play Way <br /> 37. Personal Helicon <br />
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Disc 2: Door into the Dark â 1969
01. Night-Piece <br /> 02. Gone <br /> 03. Dream <br /> 04. The Outlaw <br /> 05. The Salmon Fisher to the Salmon <br /> 06. The Forge <br /> 07. Thatcher <br /> 08. The Peninsula <br /> 09. In Gallarus Oratory <br /> 10. Girls Bathing, Galway, 1965 <br /> 11. Requiem for the Croppies <br /> 12. Rite of Spring <br /> 13. Undine <br /> 14. The Wife's Tale <br /> 15. Mother <br /> 16. Cana Revisited <br /> 17. Elegy for a Stillborn Child <br /> 18. Victorian Guitar <br /> 19. Night Drive <br /> 20. At Ardboe Point <br /> 21. Relic of Memory <br /> 22. A Lough Neagh Sequence 1. Up the Shore <br /> 23. A Lough Neagh Sequence 2. Beyond Sargasso <br /> 24. A Lough Neagh Sequence 3. Bait <br /> 25. A Lough Neagh Sequence 4. Setting <br /> 26. A Lough Neagh Sequence 5. Lifting <br /> 27. A Lough Neagh Sequence 6. The Return <br /> 28. A Lough Neagh Sequence 7. Vision <br /> 29. The Given Note <br /> 30. Whinlands <br /> 31. The Plantation <br /> 32. Shoreline <br /> 33. Bann Clay <br /> 34. Bogland <br />
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Disc 3: Wintering Out â 1972
01. For David Hammond and Michael Longley <br /> 02. Fodder <br /> 03. Bog Oak <br /> 04. Anahorish <br /> 05. Servant Boy <br /> 06. The Last Mummer <br /> 07. Land <br /> 08. Gifts of Rain <br /> 09. Toome <br /> 10. Broagh <br /> 11. Oracle <br /> 12. The Backward Look <br /> 13. Traditions <br /> 14. A New Song <br /> 15. The Other Side <br /> 16. The Wool Trade <br /> 17. Linen Town <br /> 18. A Northern Hoard 1. Roots <br /> 19. A Northern Hoard 2. No Man's Land <br /> 20. A Northern Hoard 3. Stump <br /> 21. A Northern Hoard 4. No Sanctuary <br /> 22. A Northern Hoard 5. Tinder <br /> 23. Midnight <br /> 24. The Tollund man <br /> 25. Nerthus <br /> 26. Cairn-maker <br /> 27. Navvy <br /> 28. Veteran's Dream <br /> 29. Augury <br /> 30. Wedding Day <br /> 31. Mother of the Groom <br /> 32. Summer Home <br /> 33. Serenades <br /> 34. Somnambulist <br /> 35. A Winter's Tale <br /> 36. Shore Woman <br /> 37. Maighdean Mara <br /> 38. Limbo <br /> 39. Bye-Child <br /> 40. Good-night <br /> 41. First Calf <br /> 42. May <br /> 43. Fireside <br /> 44. Dawn <br /> 45. Travel <br /> 46. Westering <br />
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Disc 4: North â 1975
01. Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication to Mary Heaney 1. Sunlight <br /> 02. Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication to Mary Heaney 2. The Seed <br /> 03. Antaeus <br /> 04. Belderg <br /> 05. Funeral Rites <br /> 06. North <br /> 07. Viking Dublin: Trial Pieces <br /> 08. The Digging Skeleton <br /> 09. Bone Dreams i <br /> 10. Bone Dreams ii <br /> 11. Bone Dreams iii <br /> 12. Bone Dreams iv <br /> 13. Bone Dreams v <br /> 14. Bone Dreams vi <br /> 15. Come to the Bower <br /> 16. Bog Queen <br /> 17. The Grauballe Man <br /> 18. Punishment <br /> 19. Strange Fruit <br /> 20. Kinship i <br /> 21. Kinship ii <br /> 22. Kinship iii <br /> 23. Kinship iv <br /> 24. Kinship v <br /> 25. Kinship vi <br /> 26. Ocean's Love to Ireland <br /> 27. Aisling <br /> 28. Act of Union <br /> 29. The Betrothal of Cavehill <br /> 30. Hercules and Antaeus <br /> 31. The Unacknowledged Legislator's Dream <br /> 32. Whatever You Say Say Nothing i <br /> 33. Whatever You Say Say Nothing ii <br /> 34. Whatever You Say Say Nothing iii <br /> 35. Whatever You Say Say Nothing iv <br /> 36. Freedman <br /> 37. Singing School (Epigraphs) <br /> 38. Singing School 1. The Ministry of Fear <br /> 39. Singing School 2. A Constable Calls <br /> 40. Singing School 3. Orange Drums, Tyrone, 1966 <br /> 41. Singing School 4. Summer 1969 <br /> 42. Singing School 5. Fosterage <br /> 43. Singing School 6. Exposure <br />
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Disc 5: Field Work â 1979
01. Oysters <br /> 02. Triptych I After a Killing <br /> 03. Triptych II Sibyl <br /> 04. Triptych III At the Water's Edge <br /> 05. The Toome Road <br /> 06. A Drink of Water <br /> 07. The Strand at Lough Beg <br /> 08. A Postcard from North Antrim <br /> 09. Casualty <br /> 10. The Badgers <br /> 11. The Singer's House <br /> 12. The Guttural Muse <br /> 13. In Memoriam Sean O'Riada <br /> 14. Elegy <br /> 15. Glanmore Sonnets I <br /> 16. Glanmore Sonnets II <br /> 17. Glanmore Sonnets III <br /> 18. Glanmore Sonnets IV <br /> 19. Glanmore Sonnets V <br /> 20. Glanmore Sonnets VI <br /> 21. Glanmore Sonnets VII <br /> 22. Glanmore Sonnets VIII <br /> 23. Glanmore Sonnets IX <br /> 24. Glanmore Sonnets X <br /> 25. September Song <br /> 26. An Afterwards <br /> 27. High Summer <br /> 28. The Otter <br /> 29. The Skunk <br /> 30. Homecomings <br /> 31. A Dream of Jealousy <br /> 32. Polder <br /> 33. Field Work I <br /> 34. Field Work II <br /> 35. Field Work III <br /> 36. Field Work IV <br /> 37. Song <br /> 38. Leavings <br /> 39. The Harvest Bow <br /> 40. In Memoriam Francis Ledwidge <br /> 41. Ugolino <br />
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Disc 6: Station Island â 1984 (disc one)
PART ONE
01. The Underground <br /> 02. La Toilette <br /> 03. Sloe Gin <br /> 04. Away from it All <br /> 05. Chekhov on Sakhalin <br /> 06. Sandstone Keepsake <br /> 07. Shelf Life 1. Granite Chip <br /> 08. Shelf Life 2. Old Smoothing Iron <br /> 09. Shelf Life 3. Old Pewter <br /> 10. Shelf Life 4. Iron Spike <br /> 11. Shelf Life 5. Stone from Delphi <br /> 12. Shelf Life 6. A Snowshoe <br /> 13. A Migration <br /> 14. Last Look <br /> 15. Remembering Malibu <br /> 16. Making Strange <br /> 17. The Birthplace <br /> 18. Changes <br /> 19. An Ulster Twilight <br /> 20. A Bat on the Road <br /> 21. A Hazel Stick for Catherine Ann <br /> 22. A Kite for Michael and Christopher <br /> 23. The Railway Children <br /> 24. Sweetpea <br /> 25. An Aisling in the Burren <br /> 26. Widgeon <br /> 27. Sheelagh na Gig <br /> 28. The Loaning <br /> 29. The Sandpit 1. 1946 <br /> 30. The Sandpit 2. The Demobbed Bricklayer <br /> 31. The Sandpit 3. The Sand Boom <br /> 32. The Sandpit 4. What the Brick Keeps <br /> 33. The King of the Ditchbacks I <br /> 34. The King of the Ditchbacks II <br /> 35. The King of the Ditchbacks III <br />
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Disc 7: Station Island â 1984 (disc two)
PART TWO - STATION ISLAND
01. Station Island I <br /> 02. Station Island II <br /> 03. Station Island III <br /> 04. Station Island IV <br /> 05. Station Island V <br /> 06. Station Island VI <br /> 07. Station Island VII <br /> 08. Station Island VIII <br /> 09. Station Island IX <br /> 10. Station Island X <br /> 11. Station Island XI <br /> 12. Station Island XII
PART THREE - SWEENEY REDIVIVUS
13. The First Gloss <br /> 14. Sweeney Redivivus <br /> 15. Unwinding <br /> 16. In the Beech <br /> 17. The First Kingdom <br /> 18. The First Flight <br /> 19. Drifting Off <br /> 20. Alerted <br /> 21. The Cleric <br /> 22. The Hermit <br /> 23. The Master <br /> 24. The Scribes <br /> 25. A Waking Dream <br /> 26. In the Chestnut Tree <br /> 27. Sweeney's Returns <br /> 28. Holly <br /> 29. An Artist <br /> 30. The Old Icons <br /> 31. In Illo Tempore <br /> 32. On the Road <br />
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Disc 8: The Haw Lantern â 1987
01. Alphabets <br /> 02. Terminus <br /> 03. From the Frontier of Writing <br /> 04. The Haw Lantern <br /> 05. The Stone Grinder <br /> 06. A Daylight Art <br /> 07. Parable Island <br /> 08. From the Republic of Conscience <br /> 09. Hailstones <br /> 10. Two Quick Notes <br /> 11. The Stone Verdict <br /> 12. From the Land of the Unspoken <br /> 13. A Ship of Death <br /> 14. The Spoonbait <br /> 15. In Memoriam: Robert Fitzgerald <br /> 16. The Old Team <br /> 17. Clearances: In Memoriam M.K.H. <br /> 18. Clearances 1 <br /> 19. Clearances 2 <br /> 20. Clearances 3 <br /> 21. Clearances 4 <br /> 22. Clearances 5 <br /> 23. Clearances 6 <br /> 24. Clearances 7 <br /> 25. Clearances 8 <br /> 26. The Milk Factory <br /> 27. The Summer of Lost Rachel <br /> 28. The Wishing Tree <br /> 29. A Postcard from Iceland <br /> 30. A Peacock's Feather <br /> 31. Grotus and Coventina <br /> 32. Holding Course <br /> 33. The Song of the Bullets <br /> 34. Wolfe Tone <br /> 35. A Shooting Script <br /> 36. From the Canton of Expectation <br /> 37. The Mud Vision <br /> 38. The Disappearing Island <br /> 39. The Riddle <br />
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Disc 9: Seeing Things â 1991 (disc one)
01. The Golden Bough
PART I
02. The Journey Back <br /> 03. Markings <br /> 04. Three Drawings 1. The Point <br /> 05. Three Drawings 2. The Pulse <br /> 06. Three Drawings 3. A Haul <br /> 07. Casting and Gathering <br /> 08. Man and Boy <br /> 09. Seeing Things I <br /> 10. Seeing Things II <br /> 11. Seeing Things III <br /> 12. The Ash Plant <br /> 13. 1.1.87 <br /> 14. An August Night <br /> 15. Field of Vision <br /> 16. The Pitchfork <br /> 17. A Basket of Chestnuts <br /> 18. The Biretta <br /> 19. The Settle Bed <br /> 20. The Schoolbag <br /> 21. Glanmore Revisited 1. Scrabble <br /> 22. Glanmore Revisited 2. The Cot <br /> 23. Glanmore Revisited 3. Scene Shifts <br /> 24. Glanmore Revisited 4. 1973 <br /> 25. Glanmore Revisited 5. Lustral Sonnet <br /> 26. Glanmore Revisited 6. Bedside Reading <br /> 27. Glanmore Revisited 7. The Skylight <br /> 28. A Pillowed Head <br /> 29. A Royal Prospect <br /> 30. A Retrospect <br /> 31. The Rescue <br /> 32. Wheels within Wheels <br /> 33. The Sounds of Rain <br /> 34. Fosterling <br />
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Disc 10: Seeing Things â 1991 (disc two)
PART II - SQUARINGS
1: Lightenings
01. Lightenings i <br /> 02. Lightenings ii <br /> 03. Lightenings iii <br /> 04. Lightenings iv <br /> 05. Lightenings v <br /> 06. Lightenings vi <br /> 07. Lightenings vii <br /> 08. Lightenings viii <br /> 09. Lightenings ix <br /> 10. Lightenings x <br /> 11. Lightenings xi <br /> 12. Lightenings xii
2: Settings
13. Settings xiii <br /> 14. Settings xiv <br /> 15. Settings xv <br /> 16. Settings xvi <br /> 17. Settings xvii <br /> 18. Settings xviii <br /> 19. Settings xix <br /> 20. Settings xx <br /> 21. Settings xxi <br /> 22. Settings xxii <br /> 23. Settings xxiii <br /> 24. Settings xxiv
3: Crossings
25. Crossings xxv <br /> 26. Crossings xxvi <br /> 27. Crossings xxvii <br /> 28. Crossings xxviii <br /> 29. Crossings xxix <br /> 30. Crossings xxx <br /> 31. Crossings xxxi <br /> 32. Crossings xxxii <br /> 33. Crossings xxxiii <br /> 34. Crossings xxxiv <br /> 35. Crossings xxxv <br /> 36. Crossings xxxvi
4. Squarings
37. Squarings xxxvii <br /> 38. Squarings xxxviii <br /> 39. Squarings xxxix <br /> 40. Squarings xl <br /> 41. Squarings xli <br /> 42. Squarings xlii <br /> 43. Squarings xliii <br /> 44. Squarings xliv <br /> 45. Squarings xlv <br /> 46. Squarings xlvi <br /> 47. Squarings xlvii <br /> 48. Squarings xlviii <br /> 49. The Crossing <br />
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Disc 11: The Spirit Level â 1996 (disc one)
01. The Rain Stick <br /> 02. To a Dutch Potter in Ireland 1. <br /> 03. To a Dutch Potter in Ireland 2. After Liberation <br /> 04. A Brigid's Girdle <br /> 05. Mint <br /> 06. A Sofa in the Forties <br /> 07. Keeping Going <br /> 08. Two Lorries <br /> 09. Damson <br /> 10. Weighing In <br /> 11. St Kevin and the Blackbird <br /> 12. The Flight Path 1 <br /> 13. The Flight Path 2 <br /> 14. The Flight Path 3 <br /> 15. The Flight Path 4 <br /> 16. The Flight Path 5 <br /> 17. The Flight Path 6 <br /> 18. An Invocation <br /> 19. Mycenae Lookout 1. The Watchman's War <br /> 20. Mycenae Lookout 2. Cassandra <br /> 21. Mycenae Lookout 3. His Dawn Vision <br /> 22. Mycenae Lookout 4. The Nights <br /> 23. Mycenae Lookout 5. The Reverie of Water <br />
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Disc 12: The Spirit Level â 1996 (disc two)
01. The First Words <br /> 02. The Gravel Walks <br /> 03. Whitby-sur-Moyola <br /> 04. The Thimble <br /> 05. The Butter-Print <br /> 06. Remembered Columns <br /> 07. 'Poet's Chair' <br /> 08. The Swing <br /> 09. The Poplar <br /> 10. Two Stick Drawings (1) <br /> 11. Two Stick Drawings (2) <br /> 12. A Call <br /> 13. The Errand <br /> 14. A Dog Was Crying Tonight in Wicklow Also <br /> 15. M. <br /> 16. An Architect <br /> 17. The Sharping Stone <br /> 18. The Strand <br /> 19. The Walk <br /> 20. At the Wellhead <br /> 21. At Banagher <br /> 22. Tollund <br /> 23. Postscript <br />
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Disc 13: Electric Light â 2001 (disc one)
I
01. At Toomebridge <br /> 02. Perch <br /> 03. Lupins <br /> 04. Out of the Bag I <br /> 05. Out of the Bag II <br /> 06. Out of the Bag III <br /> 07. Out of the Bag IV <br /> 08. Bann Valley Eclogue <br /> 09. Montana <br /> 10. The Loose Box <br /> 11. Turpin Song <br /> 12. The Border Campaign <br /> 13. Known World <br /> 14. The Little Canticles of Asturias 1 <br /> 15. The Little Canticles of Asturias 2 <br /> 16. The Little Canticles of Asturias 3 <br /> 17. Ballynahinch Lake <br /> 18. The Clothes Shrine <br /> 19. Red, White and Blue 1. Red <br /> 20. Red, White and Blue 2. White <br /> 21. Red, White and Blue 3. Blue <br /> 22. Virgil: Eclogue IX <br /> 23. Glanmore Eclogue <br /> 24. Sonnets from Hellas 1. Into Arcadia <br /> 25. Sonnets from Hellas 2. Conkers <br /> 26. Sonnets from Hellas 3. Pylos <br /> 27. Sonnets from Hellas 4. The Augean Stables <br /> 28. Sonnets from Hellas 5. Castalian Spring <br /> 29. Sonnets from Hellas 6. Desfina <br />
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Disc 14: Electric Light â 2001 (disc two)
01. The Gaeltacht <br /> 02. The Real Name <br /> 03. The Bookcase <br /> 04. Vitruviana <br /> 05. Ten Glosses 1. The Marching Season <br /> 06. Ten Glosses 2. The Catechism <br /> 07. Ten Glosses 3. The Bridge <br /> 08. Ten Glosses 4. A Suit <br /> 09. Ten Glosses 5. The Party <br /> 10. Ten Glosses 6. W. H. Auden 1907-73 <br /> 11. Ten Glosses 7. The Lesson <br /> 12. Ten Glosses 8. Moling's Gloss <br /> 13. Ten Glosses 9. Colly <br /> 14. Ten Glosses 10. A Norman Simile <br /> 15. The Fragment
II
16. On His Work in the English Tongue 1 <br /> 17. On His Work in the English Tongue 2 <br /> 18. On His Work in the English Tongue 3 <br /> 19. On His Work in the English Tongue 4 <br /> 20. On His Work in the English Tongue 5 <br /> 21. Audenesque <br /> 22. To the Shade of Zbigniew Herbert <br /> 23. "Would They Had Stay'd" <br /> 24. Late in the Day <br /> 25. Arion <br /> 26. Bodies and Souls <br /> 27. Clonmany to Ahascragh <br /> 28. Sruth <br /> 29. Seeing the Sick <br /> 30. Electric Light <br />
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Disc 15: District and Circle â 2006
01. The Turnip-Snedder <br /> 02. A Shiver <br /> 03. Polish Sleepers <br /> 04. Anahorish 1944 <br /> 05. To Mick Joyce in Heaven <br /> 06. The Aerodrome <br /> 07. Anything Can Happen <br /> 08. Helmet <br /> 09. Out of Shot <br /> 10. <br /> 11. District and Circle (1) <br /> 12. District and Circle (2) <br /> 13. District and Circle (3) <br /> 14. District and Circle (4) <br /> 15. District and Circle (5) <br /> 16. To George Seferis in the Underworld <br /> 17. Wordsworth's Skates <br /> 18. The Harrow-Pin <br /> 19. Poet to Blacksmith <br /> 20. Midnight Anvil <br /> 21. Súgán <br /> 22. Senior Infants 1. The Sally Rod <br /> 23. Senior Infants 2. A Chow <br /> 24. Senior Infants 3. One Christmas Day in the Morning <br /> 25. The Nod <br /> 26. A Clip <br /> 27. Edward Thomas on the Lagans Road <br /> 28. Found Prose 1. The Lagans Road <br /> 29. Found Prose 2. Tall Dames <br /> 30. Found Prose 3. Boarders <br /> 31. The Lift <br /> 32. Nonce Words <br /> 33. Stern <br /> 34. Out of This World 1. "Like everybody else..." <br /> 35. Out of This World 2. Brancardier <br /> 36. Out of This World 3. Saw Music <br /> 37. In Iowa <br /> 38. Höfn <br /> 39. On the Spot <br /> 40. The Tollund Man in Springtime (1) <br /> 41. The Tollund Man in Springtime (2) <br /> 42. The Tollund Man in Springtime (3) <br /> 43. The Tollund Man in Springtime (4) <br /> 44. The Tollund Man in Springtime (5) <br /> 45. The Tollund Man in Springtime (6) <br /> 46. Moyulla <br /> 47. Planting the Alder <br /> 48. Tate's Avenue <br /> 49. A Hagging Match <br /> 50. Fiddleheads <br /> 51. To Pablo Neruda in Tamlaghtduff <br /> 52. Home Help 1. Helping Sarah <br /> 53. Home Help 2. Chairing Mary <br /> 54. Rilke: The Apple Orchard <br /> 55. Quitting Time <br /> 56. Home Fires 1. A Scuttle for Dorothy Wordsworth <br /> 57. Home Fires 2. A Stove Lid for W. H. Auden <br /> 58. The Birch Grove <br /> 59. Cavafy: "The rest I'll speak of to the ones below in Hades" <br /> 60. In a Loaning <br /> 61. The Blackbird of Glanmore <br />