Perfect

The poet speaks his words. It is perfect, faultless and timeless. All mind and and heart revealing a unique emotional account of life as it has been lived with an intellectual rigour lacking pomposity. Beautiful.

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A real shame the poems are not listed

An amazing selection of poems by an amazing poet. Mr. Seamus Heaney does a fabulous job in reading his own work.

But why does Audible not take the take in listing the titles of the poems, all they do is list them as chapters 1,2,3,4 etc ... what a let down.
Please Audible, fix this, as I would be hard pushed to recommend this audiobook to anyone in its current format.
This poet deserves better, your paying customers too.

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Why are the poems not listed???

Great to hear Heaney reading his own poems but the poems need to be listed. Useless without a list.

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Lazy Audiobook Production From Faber

The three audiobook editions of Seamus Heaney's Collected Poems present the author reading his first eleven poetry collections in their entirety, plus selections from the twelfth. The recordings of the first eleven collections were made in 2009 at Beacon Studios in Dublin, and it was, according to the executive producer of the recordings, Lorelei Harris, a 'mammoth task'. Also included in volume three are live recordings of Heaney reading eleven poems from his twelfth collection. One interesting feature of listening to these recordings while following along with the printed books is that some of the poems differ slightly from the originally published works - not by much, just very occasionally he changes or adds a word here and there. Given that these are such important and wonderful recordings of Heaney's poetic work, it is a great shame that Faber couldn't be bothered to go to the effort of adding in chapter titles. Thus, one stands little to no chance of finding a specific poem as volume one has 160 unnamed chapters, volume two has 230 unnamed chapters, and volume three has 177 unnamed chapters. While one cannot fault the content of these three audiobooks, it is unfortunate that Faber doesn't show the same care for their audiobooks that they do for their print books. For an example of how to do it properly, see the audiobook edition of Paul Muldoon's 'Selected Poems 1968 - 2014', which is correctly chaptered and also published by Faber, so they could do a better job of chaptering Heaney's Collected Poems if they wanted to.

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Get the titles added!!!

Great to hear Heaney Reading his collection of poems BUT please add the titles! each poem named as a chapter. Ridiculous!

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