Field work, paperback/seamus heaney

At the centre of this collection, which includes groups of elegies and love poems, there is a short sonnet sequence which concentrates themes apparent elsewhere in the book: the individuals responsibility for his own choices, the artists commitment to his vocation, the vulnerability of all in the face of circumstance and death.

Throughout the volume Heaneys outstanding gifts, his eye, his ear, his understanding of the poetic language are on display - this is a book we cannot do without.

(Martin Dodsworth, Guardian).