749773300428

The Northern Muse

Seamus Heaney & John Montague

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Format: CD

Cat No: CCT4CD

Release Date:  06 January 2014

Label:  Claddagh

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  749773300428

Genres:  Spoken Word  Poetry  

  • Description

    Originally from 1968, recorded by Claddagh Records, this is the first time this recording has been made available on CD.

    Seamus Heaney reads ten poems and provides a sleeve-note foreword.
    Five selections are from 'Death of a Naturalist' and five from 'Door into the Dark'.

    John Montague reads eleven poems and provides a sleeve-note foreword.
    His selections are from 'Poisoned Lands', 'A Chosen Light' and 'Hymn to the New Omagh Road'

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Personal Helicon
      • 2. The Diviner
      • 3. The Barn
      • 4. Follower
      • 5. Requiem for the Croppies
      • 6. The Wife's Tale
      • 7. Mother
      • 8. Elegy for a Still-Born Child
      • 9. Bogland
      • 10. A Lough Neagh Sequence
      • 11. The Trout
      • 12. The Water Carrier
      • 13. Poisoned Lands
      • 14. Old Mythologies
      • 15. Clear the Way
      • 16. Henhouse
      • 17. The Cage
      • 18. All Legendary Obstacles
      • 19. Return
      • 20. The Seige of Mullingar
      • 21. Hymn to the New Omagh Road