Electric Light (poetry)

Electric Light

Hardback first American edition
Author	Seamus Heaney
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre	Poetry collection
Publisher	Faber and Faber, London
Publication date	2001
Media type	Print
Pages	81
ISBN
OCLC	45592796
Preceded by	The Spirit Level
Followed by	District and Circle

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.