Collected Poems is a spoken-word recording of the Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney reading his own work. It was released by RTÉ to mark his 70th birthday, which occurred on 13 April 2009. The fifteen-CD boxed set spans 556 tracks in over twelve hours of oral performance by the poet (some poems span multiple tracks). The entire work was also released on one disc in MP3 format. All of Heaney's poetry collections are performed except his final one, Human Chain, which was published in the following year. The poems are presented in the chronological order of Heaney's first eleven poetry collections. A 58-page essay about Heaney by Irish poet Peter Sirr is included in a booklet.

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(Track information source) Disc 1: Death of a Naturalist – 1966 01. Digging 02. Death of a Naturalist 03. The Barn 04. An Advancement of Learning 05. Blackberry-Picking 06. Churning Day 07. The Early Purges 08. Follower 09. Ancestral Photograph 10. Mid-Term Break 11. Dawn Shoot 12. At a Potato Digging i 13. At a Potato Digging ii 14. At a Potato Digging iii 15. At a Potato Digging iv 16. For the Commander of the 'Eliza' 17. The Diviner 18. Turkeys Observed 19. Cow in Calf 20. Trout 21. Waterfall 22. Docker 23. Poor Women in a City Church 24. Gravities 25. Twice Shy 26. Valediction 27. Lovers on Aran 28. Poem 29. Honeymoon Flight 30. Scaffolding 31. Storm on the Island 32. Synge on Aran 33. Saint Francis and the Birds 34. In Small Townlands 35. The Folk Singers 36. The Play Way 37. Personal Helicon Disc 2: Door into the Dark – 1969 01. Night-Piece 02. Gone 03. Dream 04. The Outlaw 05. The Salmon Fisher to the Salmon 06. The Forge 07. Thatcher 08. The Peninsula 09. In Gallarus Oratory 10. Girls Bathing, Galway, 1965 11. Requiem for the Croppies 12. Rite of Spring 13. Undine 14. The Wife's Tale 15. Mother 16. Cana Revisited 17. Elegy for a Stillborn Child 18. Victorian Guitar 19. Night Drive 20. At Ardboe Point 21. Relic of Memory 22. A Lough Neagh Sequence 1. Up the Shore 23. A Lough Neagh Sequence 2. Beyond Sargasso 24. A Lough Neagh Sequence 3. Bait 25. A Lough Neagh Sequence 4. Setting 26. A Lough Neagh Sequence 5. Lifting 27. A Lough Neagh Sequence 6. The Return 28. A Lough Neagh Sequence 7. Vision 29. The Given Note 30. Whinlands 31. The Plantation 32. Shoreline 33. Bann Clay 34. Bogland Disc 3: Wintering Out – 1972 01. For David Hammond and Michael Longley 02. Fodder 03. Bog Oak 04. Anahorish 05. Servant Boy 06. The Last Mummer 07. Land 08. Gifts of Rain 09. Toome 10. Broagh 11. Oracle 12. The Backward Look 13. Traditions 14. A New Song 15. The Other Side 16. The Wool Trade 17. Linen Town 18. A Northern Hoard 1. Roots 19. A Northern Hoard 2. No Man's Land 20. A Northern Hoard 3. Stump 21. A Northern Hoard 4. No Sanctuary 22. A Northern Hoard 5. Tinder 23. Midnight 24. The Tollund man 25. Nerthus 26. Cairn-maker 27. Navvy 28. Veteran's Dream 29. Augury 30. Wedding Day 31. Mother of the Groom 32. Summer Home 33. Serenades 34. Somnambulist 35. A Winter's Tale 36. Shore Woman 37. Maighdean Mara 38. Limbo 39. Bye-Child 40. Good-night 41. First Calf 42. May 43. Fireside 44. Dawn 45. Travel 46. Westering Disc 4: North – 1975 01. Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication to Mary Heaney 1. Sunlight 02. Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication to Mary Heaney 2. The Seed 03. Antaeus 04. Belderg 05. Funeral Rites 06. North 07. Viking Dublin: Trial Pieces 08. The Digging Skeleton 09. Bone Dreams i 10. Bone Dreams ii 11. Bone Dreams iii 12. Bone Dreams iv 13. Bone Dreams v 14. Bone Dreams vi 15. Come to the Bower 16. Bog Queen 17. The Grauballe Man 18. Punishment 19. Strange Fruit 20. Kinship i 21. Kinship ii 22. Kinship iii 23. Kinship iv 24. Kinship v 25. Kinship vi 26. Ocean's Love to Ireland 27. Aisling 28. Act of Union 29. The Betrothal of Cavehill 30. Hercules and Antaeus 31. The Unacknowledged Legislator's Dream 32. Whatever You Say Say Nothing i 33. Whatever You Say Say Nothing ii 34. Whatever You Say Say Nothing iii 35. Whatever You Say Say Nothing iv 36. Freedman 37. Singing School (Epigraphs) 38. Singing School 1. The Ministry of Fear 39. Singing School 2. A Constable Calls 40. Singing School 3. Orange Drums, Tyrone, 1966 41. Singing School 4. Summer 1969 42. Singing School 5. Fosterage 43. Singing School 6. Exposure Disc 5: Field Work – 1979 01. Oysters 02. Triptych I After a Killing 03. Triptych II Sibyl 04. Triptych III At the Water's Edge 05. The Toome Road 06. A Drink of Water 07. The Strand at Lough Beg 08. A Postcard from North Antrim 09. Casualty 10. The Badgers 11. The Singer's House 12. The Guttural Muse 13. In Memoriam Sean O'Riada 14. Elegy 15. Glanmore Sonnets I 16. Glanmore Sonnets II 17. Glanmore Sonnets III 18. Glanmore Sonnets IV 19. Glanmore Sonnets V 20. Glanmore Sonnets VI 21. Glanmore Sonnets VII 22. Glanmore Sonnets VIII 23. Glanmore Sonnets IX 24. Glanmore Sonnets X 25. September Song 26. An Afterwards 27. High Summer 28. The Otter 29. The Skunk 30. Homecomings 31. A Dream of Jealousy 32. Polder 33. Field Work I 34. Field Work II 35. Field Work III 36. Field Work IV 37. Song 38. Leavings 39. The Harvest Bow 40. In Memoriam Francis Ledwidge 41. Ugolino Disc 6: Station Island – 1984 (disc one) PART ONE 01. The Underground 02. La Toilette 03. Sloe Gin 04. Away from it All 05. Chekhov on Sakhalin 06. Sandstone Keepsake 07. Shelf Life 1. Granite Chip 08. Shelf Life 2. Old Smoothing Iron 09. Shelf Life 3. Old Pewter 10. Shelf Life 4. Iron Spike 11. Shelf Life 5. Stone from Delphi 12. Shelf Life 6. A Snowshoe 13. A Migration 14. Last Look 15. Remembering Malibu 16. Making Strange 17. The Birthplace 18. Changes 19. An Ulster Twilight 20. A Bat on the Road 21. A Hazel Stick for Catherine Ann 22. A Kite for Michael and Christopher 23. The Railway Children 24. Sweetpea 25. An Aisling in the Burren 26. Widgeon 27. Sheelagh na Gig 28. The Loaning 29. The Sandpit 1. 1946 30. The Sandpit 2. The Demobbed Bricklayer 31. The Sandpit 3. The Sand Boom 32. The Sandpit 4. What the Brick Keeps 33. The King of the Ditchbacks I 34. The King of the Ditchbacks II 35. The King of the Ditchbacks III Disc 7: Station Island – 1984 (disc two) PART TWO - STATION ISLAND 01. Station Island I 02. Station Island II 03. Station Island III 04. Station Island IV 05. Station Island V 06. Station Island VI 07. Station Island VII 08. Station Island VIII 09. Station Island IX 10. Station Island X 11. Station Island XI 12. Station Island XII PART THREE - SWEENEY REDIVIVUS 13. The First Gloss 14. Sweeney Redivivus 15. Unwinding 16. In the Beech 17. The First Kingdom 18. The First Flight 19. Drifting Off 20. Alerted 21. The Cleric 22. The Hermit 23. The Master 24. The Scribes 25. A Waking Dream 26. In the Chestnut Tree 27. Sweeney's Returns 28. Holly 29. An Artist 30. The Old Icons 31. In Illo Tempore 32. On the Road Disc 8: The Haw Lantern – 1987 01. Alphabets 02. Terminus 03. From the Frontier of Writing 04. The Haw Lantern 05. The Stone Grinder 06. A Daylight Art 07. Parable Island 08. From the Republic of Conscience 09. Hailstones 10. Two Quick Notes 11. The Stone Verdict 12. From the Land of the Unspoken 13. A Ship of Death 14. The Spoonbait 15. In Memoriam: Robert Fitzgerald 16. The Old Team 17. Clearances: In Memoriam M.K.H. 18. Clearances 1 19. Clearances 2 20. Clearances 3 21. Clearances 4 22. Clearances 5 23. Clearances 6 24. Clearances 7 25. Clearances 8 26. The Milk Factory 27. The Summer of Lost Rachel 28. The Wishing Tree 29. A Postcard from Iceland 30. A Peacock's Feather 31. Grotus and Coventina 32. Holding Course 33. The Song of the Bullets 34. Wolfe Tone 35. A Shooting Script 36. From the Canton of Expectation 37. The Mud Vision 38. The Disappearing Island 39. The Riddle Disc 9: Seeing Things – 1991 (disc one) 01. The Golden Bough PART I 02. The Journey Back 03. Markings 04. Three Drawings 1. The Point 05. Three Drawings 2. The Pulse 06. Three Drawings 3. A Haul 07. Casting and Gathering 08. Man and Boy 09. Seeing Things I 10. Seeing Things II 11. Seeing Things III 12. The Ash Plant 13. 1.1.87 14. An August Night 15. Field of Vision 16. The Pitchfork 17. A Basket of Chestnuts 18. The Biretta 19. The Settle Bed 20. The Schoolbag 21. Glanmore Revisited 1. Scrabble 22. Glanmore Revisited 2. The Cot 23. Glanmore Revisited 3. Scene Shifts 24. Glanmore Revisited 4. 1973 25. Glanmore Revisited 5. Lustral Sonnet 26. Glanmore Revisited 6. Bedside Reading 27. Glanmore Revisited 7. The Skylight 28. A Pillowed Head 29. A Royal Prospect 30. A Retrospect 31. The Rescue 32. Wheels within Wheels 33. The Sounds of Rain 34. Fosterling Disc 10: Seeing Things – 1991 (disc two) PART II - SQUARINGS 1: Lightenings 01. Lightenings i 02. Lightenings ii 03. Lightenings iii 04. Lightenings iv 05. Lightenings v 06. Lightenings vi 07. Lightenings vii 08. Lightenings viii 09. Lightenings ix 10. Lightenings x 11. Lightenings xi 12. Lightenings xii 2: Settings 13. Settings xiii 14. Settings xiv 15. Settings xv 16. Settings xvi 17. Settings xvii 18. Settings xviii 19. Settings xix 20. Settings xx 21. Settings xxi 22. Settings xxii 23. Settings xxiii 24. Settings xxiv 3: Crossings 25. Crossings xxv 26. Crossings xxvi 27. Crossings xxvii 28. Crossings xxviii 29. Crossings xxix 30. Crossings xxx 31. Crossings xxxi 32. Crossings xxxii 33. Crossings xxxiii 34. Crossings xxxiv 35. Crossings xxxv 36. Crossings xxxvi 4. Squarings 37. Squarings xxxvii 38. Squarings xxxviii 39. Squarings xxxix 40. Squarings xl 41. Squarings xli 42. Squarings xlii 43. Squarings xliii 44. Squarings xliv 45. Squarings xlv 46. Squarings xlvi 47. Squarings xlvii 48. Squarings xlviii 49. The Crossing Disc 11: The Spirit Level – 1996 (disc one) 01. The Rain Stick 02. To a Dutch Potter in Ireland 1. 03. To a Dutch Potter in Ireland 2. After Liberation 04. A Brigid's Girdle 05. Mint 06. A Sofa in the Forties 07. Keeping Going 08. Two Lorries 09. Damson 10. Weighing In 11. St Kevin and the Blackbird 12. The Flight Path 1 13. The Flight Path 2 14. The Flight Path 3 15. The Flight Path 4 16. The Flight Path 5 17. The Flight Path 6 18. An Invocation 19. Mycenae Lookout 1. The Watchman's War 20. Mycenae Lookout 2. Cassandra 21. Mycenae Lookout 3. His Dawn Vision 22. Mycenae Lookout 4. The Nights 23. Mycenae Lookout 5. The Reverie of Water Disc 12: The Spirit Level – 1996 (disc two) 01. The First Words 02. The Gravel Walks 03. Whitby-sur-Moyola 04. The Thimble 05. The Butter-Print 06. Remembered Columns 07. 'Poet's Chair' 08. The Swing 09. The Poplar 10. Two Stick Drawings (1) 11. Two Stick Drawings (2) 12. A Call 13. The Errand 14. A Dog Was Crying Tonight in Wicklow Also 15. M. 16. An Architect 17. The Sharping Stone 18. The Strand 19. The Walk 20. At the Wellhead 21. At Banagher 22. Tollund 23. Postscript Disc 13: Electric Light – 2001 (disc one) I 01. At Toomebridge 02. Perch 03. Lupins 04. Out of the Bag I 05. Out of the Bag II 06. Out of the Bag III 07. Out of the Bag IV 08. Bann Valley Eclogue 09. Montana 10. The Loose Box 11. Turpin Song 12. The Border Campaign 13. Known World 14. The Little Canticles of Asturias 1 15. The Little Canticles of Asturias 2 16. The Little Canticles of Asturias 3 17. Ballynahinch Lake 18. The Clothes Shrine 19. Red, White and Blue 1. Red 20. Red, White and Blue 2. White 21. Red, White and Blue 3. Blue 22. Virgil: Eclogue IX 23. Glanmore Eclogue 24. Sonnets from Hellas 1. Into Arcadia 25. Sonnets from Hellas 2. Conkers 26. Sonnets from Hellas 3. Pylos 27. Sonnets from Hellas 4. The Augean Stables 28. Sonnets from Hellas 5. Castalian Spring 29. Sonnets from Hellas 6. Desfina Disc 14: Electric Light – 2001 (disc two) 01. The Gaeltacht 02. The Real Name 03. The Bookcase 04. Vitruviana 05. Ten Glosses 1. The Marching Season 06. Ten Glosses 2. The Catechism 07. Ten Glosses 3. The Bridge 08. Ten Glosses 4. A Suit 09. Ten Glosses 5. The Party 10. Ten Glosses 6. W. H. Auden 1907-73 11. Ten Glosses 7. The Lesson 12. Ten Glosses 8. Moling's Gloss 13. Ten Glosses 9. Colly 14. Ten Glosses 10. A Norman Simile 15. The Fragment II 16. On His Work in the English Tongue 1 17. On His Work in the English Tongue 2 18. On His Work in the English Tongue 3 19. On His Work in the English Tongue 4 20. On His Work in the English Tongue 5 21. Audenesque 22. To the Shade of Zbigniew Herbert 23. "Would They Had Stay'd" 24. Late in the Day 25. Arion 26. Bodies and Souls 27. Clonmany to Ahascragh 28. Sruth 29. Seeing the Sick 30. Electric Light Disc 15: District and Circle – 2006 01. The Turnip-Snedder 02. A Shiver 03. Polish Sleepers 04. Anahorish 1944 05. To Mick Joyce in Heaven 06. The Aerodrome 07. Anything Can Happen 08. Helmet 09. Out of Shot 10. Rilke: After the Fire 11. District and Circle (1) 12. District and Circle (2) 13. District and Circle (3) 14. District and Circle (4) 15. District and Circle (5) 16. To George Seferis in the Underworld 17. Wordsworth's Skates 18. The Harrow-Pin 19. Poet to Blacksmith 20. Midnight Anvil 21. Súgán 22. Senior Infants 1. The Sally Rod 23. Senior Infants 2. A Chow 24. Senior Infants 3. One Christmas Day in the Morning 25. The Nod 26. A Clip 27. Edward Thomas on the Lagans Road 28. Found Prose 1. The Lagans Road 29. Found Prose 2. Tall Dames 30. Found Prose 3. Boarders 31. The Lift 32. Nonce Words 33. Stern 34. Out of This World 1. "Like everybody else..." 35. Out of This World 2. Brancardier 36. Out of This World 3. Saw Music 37. In Iowa 38. Höfn 39. On the Spot 40. The Tollund Man in Springtime (1) 41. The Tollund Man in Springtime (2) 42. The Tollund Man in Springtime (3) 43. The Tollund Man in Springtime (4) 44. The Tollund Man in Springtime (5) 45. The Tollund Man in Springtime (6) 46. Moyulla 47. Planting the Alder 48. Tate's Avenue 49. A Hagging Match 50. Fiddleheads 51. To Pablo Neruda in Tamlaghtduff 52. Home Help 1. Helping Sarah 53. Home Help 2. Chairing Mary 54. Rilke: The Apple Orchard 55. Quitting Time 56. Home Fires 1. A Scuttle for Dorothy Wordsworth 57. Home Fires 2. A Stove Lid for W. H. Auden 58. The Birch Grove 59. Cavafy: "The rest I'll speak of to the ones below in Hades" 60. In a Loaning 61. The Blackbird of Glanmore