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How do you summarize the work of a writer who published dozens of books of poems, translations, essays and more?
This is the family answer to that question. Heaney, an excellent and accessible poet, had already published two collections of selected work. But when he died, it was still too vast an estate for his widow and children.
So the family chose their favorites of Heaney's work, one hundred poems out of thousands. It is compelling from the first couplet. His gift for leaping from the personal concern to the greater question, or from a seemingly mild poem into a knockout punch of a last line -- it's all on fine display here.
For readers unfamiliar with this great and prolific Irish poet, here is an ideal introduction.