RaveThe Times (UK)Heaney’s sheer industry and drive as a writer is on display in this volume, with the gathering together of many previously uncollected poems ... Six hundred pages of commentary provide context for the poems. Introductions to each collection are useful. But individual notes are often footling, occasionally unsourced, and frequently irrelevant ... Nevertheless, this vast collected poems demonstrates the magnitude of Heaney’s achievement in poetry. He maintained a staggeringly high strike rate of good poems throughout his long career.
