northern ireland

Seamus Heaney reads from Death of a Naturalist (1966), Door into the Dark (1969), Wintering Out (1972), North (1975), Field Work (1979), and Station Island (1984). This recording is incomplete due to a malfunction on the original reel-to-reel tape, and the final three tracks display some sound distortion. 

Medbh McGuckian reads poems from throughout her career, not long after the announcement of a historic ceasefire in her native Northern Ireland. The reading opens with several early poems that are uncollected to the best of our knowledge.