Opened Ground Poems 1966-1996 Brand / Indigiearth From his early training in

From his early training in draughtsmanship and his pivotal time as an engraver's apprentice

Whether decorating with a single image or using the paper as gift wrap

turns and darker depictions of folklore

A half-hearted affair with Major Crampas – a manipulative married man with a reputation for womanising – temporarily distracts Effi from her loneliness

Opened Ground Poems 1966-1996 Brand / Indigiearth From his early training inA much needed new selection of Seamus Heaney's work. Opened Ground: Poems 1966 1996 comes as close to being a 'Collected Poems' as its author cares to make it. It replaces his New Selected Poems 1966 1987, giving a fuller selection from each of the volumes represented there and adding large parts of those that have appeared since, together with examples of his work as a translator. The book concludes with 'Crediting Poetry', the speech with which