The Spirit Level is a 1996 poetry collection written by Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. It won the poetry prize for the 1996 Whitbread Awards.
Heaney has been recorded reading this collection on the Seamus Heaney Collected Poems album.
Contents
The Rain Stick To a Dutch Potter in Ireland 1. To a Dutch Potter in Ireland 2. After Liberation A Brigid's Girdle Mint A Sofa in the Forties Keeping Going Two Lorries Damson Weighing In St Kevin and the Blackbird The Flight Path 1 The Flight Path 2 The Flight Path 3 The Flight Path 4 The Flight Path 5 The Flight Path 6 An Invocation Mycenae Lookout 1. The Watchman's War Mycenae Lookout 2. Cassandra Mycenae Lookout 3. His Dawn Vision Mycenae Lookout 4. The Nights Mycenae Lookout 5. The Reverie of Water The First Words The Gravel Walks Whitby-sur-Moyola The Thimble The Butter-Print Remembered Columns 'Poet's Chair' The Swing The Poplar Two Stick Drawings (1) Two Stick Drawings (2) A Call The Errand A Dog Was Crying Tonight in Wicklow Also M. An Architect The Sharping Stone The Strand The Walk At the Wellhead At Banagher Tollund Postscript
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