Seamus Heaney’s pamphlet
Eleven Poemswas published in November of 1965 by Festival Publications of Queen’s University, Belfast. Running to only sixteen pages and costing 3s. 0d., this slender offering collects some of Heaney’s earliest poems. As the acknowledgements state, some poems had already appeared in
The Dublin Magazine,
Kilkenny Magazine,
Listener,
New Statesmanand
Poetry; one poem (“Peter Street at Bankside”) had been “commissioned to be read at the foundation ceremony of the new Lyric Theatre, Belfast”. [1] All save this poem would appear the following year in Heaney’s début book
Death of a Naturalist. The poems are “Personal Helicon”, “Mid-Term Break”, “Follower”, “The Diviner”, “Waterfall”, “Docker”, “For the Commander of ‘The…
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Citation: Hall, Jason David. "Eleven Poems". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 22 October 2004 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=10118, accessed 22 November 2024.]
