Sweeney's Flight

seamus heaney rachel giese brown

Thirty-four exceptional photographs by Giese of Northern Ireland, which Heaney has matched with extracts and quotations from Sweeney Astray, revised especialy for this book. Heaney has written a preface to this joint work, and the second half contains the complete revised poem.

Genres poetryireland

160 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1,1992

This edition

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Published: September 1, 1992 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 9780374272197
ASIN: 0374272190
Language: English

About the author

seamus heaney

Works of Irish poet Seamus Justin Heaney reflect landscape, culture, and political crises of his homeland and include the collections Wintering Out (1972) and Field Work (1979) as well as a translation of Beowulf (1999). He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1995.

This writer and lecturer won this prize "for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past."

Heaney on Wikipedia.