Field Work: Poems

<p><i>Field Work</i> is the record of four years during which Seamus Heaney left the violence of Belfast to settle in a country cottage with his family in Glanmore, County Wicklow. Heeding &quot;an early warning system to get back inside my own head,&quot; Heaney wrote poems with a new strength and maturity, moving from the political concerns of his landmark volume North to a more personal, contemplative approach to the world and to his own writing. In <i>Field Work</i> he &quot;brings a meditative music to bear upon fundamental themes of person and place, the mutuality of ourselves and the world&quot; (Denis Donoghue, <i>The New York Times Book Review) .</i></p>