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Heaney's last collection, written after a stroke, of memory, friendship, his father and the passing on of things.
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District and Circle
Late poems that move between the farm and forge of Heaney's childhood and the London Underground, with translations and prose poems.
Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966–1996
Thirty years of Heaney's poems, from Death of a Naturalist to The Spirit Level, with his Nobel lecture.
The Poetry of Jaroslav Seifert
A selection from across the Czech poet's work, from the playful avant-garde poems of the 1920s to the late poems of memory, love and Prague.
White Egrets
Late poems of age, love and loss, written in St Lucia and on travels through Europe.
The Carrying
Poems about the body that refuses pregnancy, the small domestic world of horses and fig trees, and what the heart carries forward anyway.
Time Is a Mother
Poems written after his mother's death, elegies that move through work, opioids and the close quarters of a son's grief.
New and Collected Poems
Seventy years of Miłosz's poems, from the Warsaw of the war years to old age in California and Kraków.
The Wild Iris
A book-length sequence of poems spoken by the flowers of a garden, by the gardener, and by the god they all address.
Tinkers
George Washington Crosby, an old repairer of clocks dying in his living room in Maine, remembers his father, an epileptic tinker who sold goods from a mule cart.
The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
The full arc of Yeats's work, from Celtic twilight dreaming to the fierce, stripped late poems wrestling with age, Ireland, and the turning gyres of history.
Platero and I
Prose poems of a poet and Platero, his small silver-grey donkey, walking the streets and fields of Moguer, an Andalusian village, through the seasons of a year.
Selected Poems
Poems from across Mistral's life, of lost love, motherhood and children, faith and the landscapes of Chile, in Ursula K. Le Guin's translation.