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Door into the Dark

First edition (Faber and Faber)
Author	Seamus Heaney
Language	English
Publisher	Faber and Faber
Publication date	1969
Media type	Print
Pages	64 pp
ISBN	9780571101269
Preceded by	Death of a Naturalist
Followed by	Wintering Out

Door into the Dark (1969) is a poetry collection by Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Poems include "Requiem for the Croppies", "Thatcher" and "The Wife's Tale". Heaney has been recorded reading this collection on the Seamus Heaney Collected Poems album.

Contents

• Night-Piece
• Gone
• Dream
• The Outlaw
• The Salmon Fisher to the Salmon
• The Forge
• Thatcher
• The Peninsula
• In Gallarus Oratory
• Girls Bathing, Galway, 1965
• Requiem for the Croppies
• Rite of Spring
• Undine
• The Wife's Tale
• Mother
• Cana Revisited
• Elegy for a Still-born Child
• Victorian Guitar
• Night Drive
• At Ardboe Point
• Relic of Memory
• A Lough Neagh Sequence 1. Up the Shore
• A Lough Neagh Sequence 2. Beyond Sargasso
• A Lough Neagh Sequence 3. Bait
• A Lough Neagh Sequence 4. Setting
• A Lough Neagh Sequence 5. Lifting
• A Lough Neagh Sequence 6. The Return
• A Lough Neagh Sequence 7. Vision
• The Given Note
• Whinlands
• The Plantation
• Shoreline
• Bann Clay
• Bogland

References

1. "The Nobel Prize in Literature 1995". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 2022-06-29.

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