New Selected Poems 1966-1987 is a collection of poems from Irish

Ireland

Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

 Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer. He lives in Dublin. Heaney has received the Nobel Prize in Literature , the Golden Wreath of Poetry , T. S. Eliot Prize and two Whitbread prizes...

 published in 1990 (see 1990 in poetry

1990 in poetry

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) by Faber and Faber

Faber and Faber

Faber and Faber Limited, often abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in the UK, notable in particular for publishing a great deal of poetry and for its former editor T. S. Eliot. Faber has a rich tradition of publishing a wide range of fiction, non fiction, drama, film and music...

. It includes selections from each of Heaney's seven first volumes of verse:

• Death of a Naturalist
  Death of a Naturalist
  Death of a Naturalist is a collection of poems written by Irish Nobel winner Seamus Heaney. The collection was Heaney's second major published volume, and includes ideas which he had presented at meetings of The Belfast Group...
  
  (1966)
• Door into the Dark
  Door into the Dark
  Door into the Dark is a collection of poems written by Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney. 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.-External links:*...
  
  (1969)
• Wintering Out
  Wintering Out
  Wintering Out is a collection of poems written by Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney.In Northern Ireland, the phrase "to winter out" means "to see through and survive a crisis". Some critics contend that this volume of poetry is representative of Heaney's desire to ride out the Troubles and hope...
  
  (1972)
• North
  North (poetry)
  North is a collection of poems written by Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney. It was the first of his works that directly dealt with the troubles experienced in Ireland through the 1960s and 70s. In particular, he uses parallels with past events to explain the problems of Irish society...
  
  (1975)
• Field Work
  Field Work (Heaney)
  Field Work is a collection of poems written by Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney."Fieldwork" was written during a time when Heaney was away from his family, due to work. One of his poem's in "Fieldwork" is called "The Skunk" and in it he writes about his wife who, by using an extended metaphor,...
  
  (1979)
• Station Island (1984)
• The Haw Lantern
  The Haw Lantern
  The Haw Lantern is a collection of poems written by Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney. It has a theme of loss and deals with the death of his mother, who died in 1984.Here is an interpretation of some of the poems featured in the collection:...
  
  (1987)

It also includes several prose poems

Prose poetry

Prose poetry is poetry written in prose instead of using verse but preserving poetic qualities such as heightened imagery and emotional effects.-Characteristics:Prose poetry can be considered either primarily poetry or prose, or a separate genre altogether...

 from Heaney's limited volume Stations

Stations (Heaney)

Stations is a collection of poems written by Seamus Heaney, published in 1975.This particular collection presents a style of writing which was then new to Heaney, known as "verse paragraphs" or prose poems...

(1975), as well as excerpts from Sweeney Astray

Sweeney Astray

Sweeney Astray: A Version from the Irish is a version of the Irish poem Buile Shuibhne written by Seamus Heaney and published in 1983. It is based on an earlier translation by J.G. O'Keeffe...

(1983), Heaney's verse translation of the Irish

Irish language

Irish , also known as Irish Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people. Irish is now spoken as a first language by a minority of Irish people, as well as being a second language of a larger proportion of...

 legend Buile Shuibhne

Buile Shuibhne

Buile Suibhne is the tale of Suibhne , a legendary king of Dál nAraidi in Ulster in Ireland...

.
The collection includes poems such as "The Haw Lantern

The Haw Lantern

The Haw Lantern is a collection of poems written by Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney. It has a theme of loss and deals with the death of his mother, who died in 1984.Here is an interpretation of some of the poems featured in the collection:...

", "Mid-Term Break", "Follower

Follower

Follower is a poem by Seamus Heaney released in his 1966 collection Death of a Naturalist. The poem is about how he admired and followed his father....

" and "Clearances".