{"product_id":"death-of-a-naturalist","title":"Death of a Naturalist","description":"For the fortieth anniversary of its publication, in May 2006, Faber are reissuing Seamus Heaney's classic first collection, Death of a Naturalist, which on its appearance in 1966 won the Cholmondeley Award, the E.C. Gregory Award, the Somerset Maugham Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.  'His words give us the soil-reek of Ireland, the colourful violence of his childhood on a farm in Derry. The full-blooded energy of these poems makes Death of a Naturalist the best first book of poems I've read for some time.' - C.B. Cox in the Spectator 'The power and precision of his best poems are a delight, and as a first collection Death of a Naturalist is outstanding [...] His subject is those things which are inherent or inherited. What he praises is to be praised in his own work.' - Christopher Ricks, New Statesman  'Now, to pry into roots, to finger slime, To stare big-eyed Narcissus, into some spring  Is beneath all adult dignity. I rhyme  To see myself, to set the darkness echoing.'","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40154515669077,"sku":"9780571230839N","price":11.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/7587812d-ae89-4002-9c0f-15e0356c4e47.jpg?v=1657191866","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/death-of-a-naturalist","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}