Product Description

"Finders Keepers" is a gathering of Seamus Heaney's prose of three decades. Whether autobiographical, topical or specifically literary, these essays and lectures circle the central preoccupying questions: How should a poet properly live and write? What is his relationship to be to his own voice, his own place, his literary heritage and the contemporary world? As well as being a selection of the poet's three previous collections of prose ("Preoccupations", "The Government of the Tongue", and "The Redress of Poetry"), the present volume includes material from "The Place of Writing", a series of lectures delivered at Emory University in 1988. Also included are a rich variety of pieces not preiously collected in volume form, ranging from short newspaper articles to more extended lectures and contributions to books. In its soundings of a wide range of poets - Irish and British, American and East European, predecessors and contemporaries - "Finders Keepers" is, as its title indicates, "an announcement of both excitement and possession".

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #89055 in Books
• Published on: 2003-04-07
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 422 pages

Review
'His essays are essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the relation of poetic work to a poetic life.' Literary Review; 'Heaney has argued for - and demonstrated through his own work - the importance of the art of poetry.' Spectator

Spectator, 6 April 2002
Why... should we value the example of Heaney? Because he has argued for - and demonstrated through his own work - the importance of the art of poetry.

Financial Times, 30 March 2002
In terms of critical insight and personal reflection, Finders Keepers opens up a gold mine.