Seamus Heaney was born on 13 April 1939 in County Derry, Northern Ireland. His first collection, Death of a Naturalist (Faber & Faber), was published in 1965, and was followed by nearly 100 books, including District and Circle (Faber & Faber), which won the T. S. Eliot Prize 2006; he was shortlisted for the Eliot Prize in 1996 for The...
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This article on the T. S. Eliot Prize was first published on the Poetry Book Society website in 2007. The Poetry Book Society is pleased to announce that the winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize for the best single-author collection of poetry published in 2006 is: Seamus Heaney, for...
This article on the T. S. Eliot Prize was first published on the Poetry Book Society website in 2006. The Poetry Book Society is pleased to announce the Shortlist for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2006, to be awarded to the writer of the best new collection of poetry published...
