Seeing Things (poetry)

Seeing Things

First edition (publ. Faber)
Author	Seamus Heaney
Language	English
Publisher	Faber and Faber
Publication date	1991
Media type	Print
Pages	128 pp
ISBN
Preceded by	The Haw Lantern
Followed by	The Spirit Level

Seeing Things is the ninth poetry collection by Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. It was published in 1991. Heaney draws inspiration from the visions of afterlife in Virgil and Dante Alighieri in order to come to terms with the death of his father, Patrick, in 1986. The title, Seeing Things, refers both to the solid, fluctuating world of objects and to a haunted, hallucinatory realm of the imagination. Heaney has been recorded reading this collection on the Seamus Heaney Collected Poems album.

PART I

PART II - SQUARINGS

1: Lightenings

2: Settings

3: Crossings

4. Squarings