FIELD WORK PB B FORMAT – 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 individual s responsibility for his own choices, the artist s commitment to his vocation, the vulnerability of all in the face of circumstance and death. Throughout the volume Heaney s 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