The Spirit Level is a 1996 poetry collection written by Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. It won the poetry prize for the 1996 Whitbread Awards.
Heaney has been recorded reading this collection on the Seamus Heaney Collected Poems album.
Contents
The Rain Stick
To a Dutch Potter in Ireland 1.
To a Dutch Potter in Ireland 2. After Liberation
A Brigid's Girdle
Mint
A Sofa in the Forties
Keeping Going
Two Lorries
Damson
Weighing In
St Kevin and the Blackbird
The Flight Path 1
The Flight Path 2
The Flight Path 3
The Flight Path 4
The Flight Path 5
The Flight Path 6
An Invocation
Mycenae Lookout 1. The Watchman's War
Mycenae Lookout 2. Cassandra
Mycenae Lookout 3. His Dawn Vision
Mycenae Lookout 4. The Nights
Mycenae Lookout 5. The Reverie of Water
The First Words
The Gravel Walks
Whitby-sur-Moyola
The Thimble
The Butter-Print
Remembered Columns
'Poet's Chair'
The Swing
The Poplar
Two Stick Drawings (1)
Two Stick Drawings (2)
A Call
The Errand
A Dog Was Crying Tonight in Wicklow Also
M.
An Architect
The Sharping Stone
The Strand
The Walk
At the Wellhead
At Banagher
Tollund
Postscript