New Releases by Seamus Heaney

Presents a new translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic chronicling the heroic adventures of Beowulf, the Scandinavian warrior who saves his people from the ravages of the monster Grendel and Grendel''s mother.

In this English translation of poems written by Ozef Kalda, which were set to music by Leos Janacek, the folktale of a farmer''s boy who abandons his home because he has fallen in love with a gypsy is told.

"Each of the translations in this book can be read for its own sake or as part of a triptych. By setting excerpts of Brian Merriman''s Cuirt an Mhean Oiche within the acoustic of a classical myth (the story of Orpheus and Eurydice), Seamus Heaney provides a new and illuminating context for the eighteenth century Irish poem. For this paperback reissue, the poet has made some revisions in the text of the original Gallery Press edition."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Three of our generation''s greatest poets explore the misconceptions and mythologies that surround Robert Frost.

Inspired by Seaaemus Heaney''s poems, and notably by the mediaeval Irish saga Buile Suibhne, the photographer Rachel Giese has produced a portfolio of pictures of the northern Irish landscape, covering the boundaries of Mad Sweeney''s original kingdom of Dal-Arie. She has recently followed the clues to topography and the natural world in Sweeney''s wanderings, and gathered together 40 photographs which Seamus Heaney has matched with extracts and quotations from his book Sweeney Astray. The whole of the text for Sweeney Astray is printed in the second section of this book.