| Collected Poems | |
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| Recorded | 2009 |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Label | RTÉ with the Lannan Foundation |
| ISBN 978-0-57-124707-3 | |
Collected Poems is a spoken-word recording of the Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney reading his own work. It was released by RTÉ to mark his 70th birthday,[1][2] which occurred on 13 April 2009.[3] The fifteen-CD boxed set[4] spans 556 tracks in over twelve hours of oral performance by the poet (some poems span multiple tracks). The entire work was also released on one disc in MP3 format.
All of Heaney's poetry collections are performed except his final one, Human Chain, which was published in the following year. The poems are presented in the chronological order of Heaney's first eleven poetry collections.[note 1] A 58-page essay about Heaney by Irish poet Peter Sirr is included in a booklet.
- ^ "Heaney at 70". RTÉ. April 2009. Retrieved 25 April 2010.
- ^ "Seamus Heaney 70th birthday commemorative Irish Times supplement". Irish Times. April 2009. Retrieved 24 April 2010.
- ^ Seamus Heaney's 70th Birthday to be Celebrated by Special Exhibition at Irish Museum of Modern Art artdaily.org, 2009-04-08.
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- "CD Boxset presentation at RTÉ website". RTÉ. April 2009. Retrieved 25 April 2010.
- "Landscape, language and history (article extracted from CD booklet)". Irish Times. April 2009. Retrieved 24 April 2010.
- "2009 'The Irish Times' Critics' Choice". Irish Times. 3 January 2009. Retrieved 24 April 2010.
- "Collected Poems: Seamus Heaney". Faber and Faber. 2 April 2009. Archived from the original on 4 May 2010. Retrieved 24 April 2010.
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