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 from 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 previously 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'.
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- Place of Publication:
- London
- Authors:
- Heaney, Seamus
- Year Published:
- 2003
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- ISBN:
- 9780571210916
- Number of Pages:
- 432
- Publication Date:
- 07/04/2003
- Publisher:
- Faber & Faber
- Format:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- SKU:
- 9780571210916