Stepping stones: interviews with Seamus Heaney

Introduction

Acknowledgements

Glossary

Chronology

Maps

I. Bearings

1. From Home to School

2. Growing into Poetry

II. On the Books

3. 'The hazel stirred': Death of a Naturalist

4. 'Inwards and downwards': Door into the Dark

5. 'Vowels and history': Wintering Out

6. 'The bleb of the icicle': North

7. 'The life we're shown': Field Work

8. 'To the edge of the water': Station Island

9. 'The books stood open and the gates unbarred': Harvard

10. 'A river in the trees': The Haw Lantern

11. 'Time to be dazzled': Seeing Things

12. 'Keeping going': The Spirit Level

13. 'So deeper into it': Electric Light, District and Circle

14. 'In a wooden O'; Field Day, Oxford Professor of Poetry, Translation

15. 'An ear to the line': Writing and Reading

III. Code

16. In Conclusion

Seamus Heaney Books and Interviews

Biographical Glossary

Index