Electric Light (poetry collection)

Electric Light (Faber and Faber, 2001, ) is a poetry collection by Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. The collection explores childhood, nature, and poetry itself.

Part one presents translations and adaptations, occasional and celebratory poems, and verse about travel in the Gaeltacht, the Balkans and Greece. Part two of the collection consists of elegies for poets (Ted Hughes, Joseph Brodsky, and Zbigniew Herbert), and Heaney's relatives and friends.

Heaney has been recorded reading this collection on the Seamus Heaney Collected Poems album.

Contents

At Toomebridge Perch Lupins Out of the Bag 1 Out of the Bag 2 Out of the Bag 3 Out of the Bag 4 Bann Valley Eclogue Montana The Loose Box Turpin Song The Border Campaign Known World The Little Canticles of Asturias 1 The Little Canticles of Asturias 2 The Little Canticles of Asturias 3 Ballynahinch Lake The Clothes Shrine Red, White and Blue 1. Red Red, White and Blue 2. White Red, White and Blue 3. Blue Virgil: Eclogue IX Glanmore Eclogue Sonnets from Hellas 1. Into Arcadia Sonnets from Hellas 2. Conkers Sonnets from Hellas 3. Pylos Sonnets from Hellas 4. The Augean Stables Sonnets from Hellas 5. Castalian Spring Sonnets from Hellas 6. Desfina The Gaeltacht The Real Name The Bookcase Vitruviana Ten Glosses 1. The Marching Season Ten Glosses 2. The Catechism Ten Glosses 3. The Bridge Ten Glosses 4. A Suit Ten Glosses 5. The Party Ten Glosses 6. W. H. Auden 1907-73 Ten Glosses 7. The Lesson Ten Glosses 8. Moling's Gloss Ten Glosses 9. Colly Ten Glosses 10. A Norman Simile The Fragment On His Work in the English Tongue (1) On His Work in the English Tongue (2) On His Work in the English Tongue (3) On His Work in the English Tongue (4) On His Work in the English Tongue (5) Audenesque To the Shade of Zbigniew Herbert 'Would They Had Stay'd' Late in the Day Arion Bodies and Souls Clonmany to Ahascragh Sruth Seeing the Sick Electric Light

External links Lux perpetua: Seamus Heaney on the making of his collection, Electric Light Ten Glosses: Verse by Seamus Heaney