The Spirit Level (poetry collection)

For other uses, see The Spirit Level (disambiguation).

The Spirit Level
First edition (publ. Faber)
AuthorSeamus Heaney
LanguageEnglish
PublisherFaber and Faber
Publication date
1996
Media typePrint
Pages80 pp
ISBN9780571178223
Preceded bySeeing Things 
Followed byElectric Light 

The Spirit Level is a 1996 poetry collection written by Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. It won the poetry prize for the 1996 Whitbread Awards.[1]

Heaney has been recorded reading this collection on the Seamus Heaney Collected Poems album.

  1. ^ Bernard O'Donoghue (1 January 2009). The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney. Cambridge University Press. p. xviii. ISBN 978-0-521-83882-5.