STEPPING STONES

Widely regarded as the finest poet of his generation, Seamus Heaney is the subject of numerous critical studies/ but no book-length portrait has appeared until now. Through his own lively and eloquent reminiscences, Stepping Stones retraces the poet's steps from h is early works, through to his receipt of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature and his post-Nobel life. It is supplemented with a lar ge number of photographs, many from the Heaney family album and published here for the first time. In response to firm but subtle qu estioning...[Read more]