Field Work

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Field Work is a 1979 poetry collection by Seamus Heaney that reflects on personal loss, political violence in Northern Ireland, and rural life through richly lyrical and meditative verse.

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Field Work canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
poetry collection
author Seamus Heaney
countryOfOrigin Ireland
follows North
genre poetry
hasForm elegy
lyric poem
sonnet sequence
hasPoem A Dream of Jealousy
A Drink of Water
Casualty
Elegy
Glanmore Sonnets
Oysters
The Badgers
The Harvest Bow
The Otter
The Singer’s House
The Skunk
The Strand
The Toome Road
Triptych
Count Ugolino
surface form: Ugolino
hasSubject The Troubles
surface form: Northern Irish conflict

family relationships
friendship
language English
literaryMovement contemporary Irish poetry
literaryStyle lyrical
meditative
mainTheme The Troubles
grief
landscape
marriage
memory
personal loss
political violence in Northern Ireland
rural life
notablePoem Casualty
Glanmore Sonnets
The Harvest Bow
The Skunk
periodInAuthorCareer middle period of Seamus Heaney’s work
precedes Station Island
publicationYear 1979
publisher Faber and Faber
setting Northern Ireland
rural Ireland

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Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Seamus Heaney notableWork Field Work
Christopher Heaney notableWork Field Work
subject surface form: Seamus Heaney
Station Island follows Field Work