Electric Light (Faber and Faber, 2001, ) is a poetry collection by Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. The collection explores childhood, nature, and poetry itself.
Part one presents translations and adaptations, occasional and celebratory poems, and verse about travel in the Gaeltacht, the Balkans and Greece. Part two of the collection consists of elegies for poets (Ted Hughes, Joseph Brodsky, and Zbigniew Herbert), and Heaney's relatives and friends.
Heaney has been recorded reading this collection on the Seamus Heaney Collected Poems album.
Contents
At Toomebridge
Perch
Lupins
Out of the Bag 1
Out of the Bag 2
Out of the Bag 3
Out of the Bag 4
Bann Valley Eclogue
Montana
The Loose Box
Turpin Song
The Border Campaign
Known World
The Little Canticles of Asturias 1
The Little Canticles of Asturias 2
The Little Canticles of Asturias 3
Ballynahinch Lake
The Clothes Shrine
Red, White and Blue 1. Red
Red, White and Blue 2. White
Red, White and Blue 3. Blue
Virgil: Eclogue IX
Glanmore Eclogue
Sonnets from Hellas 1. Into Arcadia
Sonnets from Hellas 2. Conkers
Sonnets from Hellas 3. Pylos
Sonnets from Hellas 4. The Augean Stables
Sonnets from Hellas 5. Castalian Spring
Sonnets from Hellas 6. Desfina
The Gaeltacht
The Real Name
The Bookcase
Vitruviana
Ten Glosses 1. The Marching Season
Ten Glosses 2. The Catechism
Ten Glosses 3. The Bridge
Ten Glosses 4. A Suit
Ten Glosses 5. The Party
Ten Glosses 6. W. H. Auden 1907-73
Ten Glosses 7. The Lesson
Ten Glosses 8. Moling's Gloss
Ten Glosses 9. Colly
Ten Glosses 10. A Norman Simile
The Fragment
On His Work in the English Tongue (1) On His Work in the English Tongue (2) On His Work in the English Tongue (3) On His Work in the English Tongue (4) On His Work in the English Tongue (5) Audenesque To the Shade of Zbigniew Herbert 'Would They Had Stay'd' Late in the Day Arion Bodies and Souls Clonmany to Ahascragh Sruth Seeing the Sick Electric Light