''Electric Light'' (

Faber and Faber Faber and Faber Limited, commonly known as Faber & Faber or simply Faber, is an independent publishing house in London. Published authors and poets include T. S. Eliot (an early Faber editor and director), W. H. Auden, C. S. Lewis, Margaret S ...

, 2001, ) is a poetry collection by

Seamus Heaney Seamus Justin Heaney (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish Irish poetry, poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Among his best-known works is ''Death of a Naturalist'' (1966), his first m ...

, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. The collection explores childhood, nature, and poetry itself. Part one presents translations and adaptations, occasional and celebratory poems, and verse about travel in the

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, the

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. Part two of the collection consists of elegies for poets ( Ted Hughes, Joseph Brodsky, and Zbigniew Herbert), and Heaney's relatives and friends. Heaney has been recorded reading this collection on the ''

Seamus Heaney Collected Poems ''Collected Poems'' is a spoken-word recording of the Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney reading his own work. It was released by RTÉ to mark his 70th birthday, which occurred on 13 April 2009. The fifteen-CD box set, boxed set * * * * ...

'' album.

* At Toomebridge * Perch * Lupins * Out of the Bag 1 * Out of the Bag 2 * Out of the Bag 3 * Out of the Bag 4 * Bann Valley Eclogue * Montana * The Loose Box * Turpin Song * The Border Campaign * Known World * The Little Canticles of Asturias 1 * The Little Canticles of Asturias 2 * The Little Canticles of Asturias 3 * Ballynahinch Lake * The Clothes Shrine * Red, White and Blue 1. Red * Red, White and Blue 2. White * Red, White and Blue 3. Blue * Virgil: Eclogue IX * Glanmore Eclogue * Sonnets from Hellas 1. Into Arcadia * Sonnets from Hellas 2. Conkers * Sonnets from Hellas 3. Pylos * Sonnets from Hellas 4. The Augean Stables * Sonnets from Hellas 5. Castalian Spring * Sonnets from Hellas 6. Desfina * The Gaeltacht * The Real Name * The Bookcase * Vitruviana * Ten Glosses 1. The Marching Season * Ten Glosses 2. The Catechism * Ten Glosses 3. The Bridge * Ten Glosses 4. A Suit * Ten Glosses 5. The Party * Ten Glosses 6. W. H. Auden 1907-73 * Ten Glosses 7. The Lesson * Ten Glosses 8. Moling's Gloss * Ten Glosses 9. Colly * Ten Glosses 10. A Norman Simile * The Fragment * On His Work in the English Tongue (1) * On His Work in the English Tongue (2) * On His Work in the English Tongue (3) * On His Work in the English Tongue (4) * On His Work in the English Tongue (5) * Audenesque * To the Shade of Zbigniew Herbert * 'Would They Had Stay'd' * Late in the Day * Arion * Bodies and Souls * Clonmany to Ahascragh * Sruth * Seeing the Sick * Electric Light

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Lux perpetua: Seamus Heaney on the making of his collection, ''Electric Light''

Ten Glosses: Verse by Seamus Heaney
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