A reading of a handful of poems from the second half of Seamus Heaney's career. Aside from his book Seeing Things, his poetry doesn't seem nearly as powerful to me as his earlier work, and so it seemed best to sum up my favorite poems from his later life here. 

The poems are: 

Station Island (1984)

from The Spirit Level (1996)

from District and Circle (2006)

from Human Chain (2010)

And a final section from his translation of Beowulf

You can buy the individual volumes, or find nearly all of these poems in the career-spanning 100 Poems.

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