Seamus Heaney’s most recent publications are Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1998) and Beowulf, A New Verse Translation (W.W. Norton & Company, 2000). A book of poems, Electric Light, will be published in 2001 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
Seamus Heaney won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995.