"The soul exceeds its circumstances": the later poetry of Seamus Heaney

Part I. Heaney and Death. Surviving death in Heaney's Human Chain / Andrew J. Auge

Death and everyman : imagining a "not unwelcoming emptiness" / Magdalena Kay

Squarings / Helen Vendler

Part II. Heaney's Later Style. The freed speech of "Equivocal Words" : Seamus Heaney's door into the light / Michael R. Molino

Happening once for ever : Heaney's late style / Neil Corcoran

"The whole of me a-patter" : image, feeling, and finding form in Heaney's late work / Meg Tyler

Part 3. Translation and transnational poetics. "Renewed, transfigured, in another pattern" : metaphor and displacement in Seamus Heaney's Human Chain / Michael Parker

The reluctant transatlanticist : "Like a weeping willow inclined to the appetites of gravity" / Elmer Kennedy-Andrews

Crediting marvels or taking responsibility : vocation and declarations of intent by Seamus Heaney after Seeing Things / Bernard O'Donoghue

Part IV. Luminous Things and Gifts. Seamus Heaney's gifts / Henry Hart

"Deep down things" : the inner lives of things in later Heaney / Richard Rankin Russell

"Door into the light" : the later poems of Seamus Heaney / Stephen Regan

Part V. Usual and Unusual Spaces."Scatter-eyed / and daunted" : the "Matrixial Gaze" in Seeing Things / Moynagh Sullivan

"Beyond maps and atlases" : transfiguration and immanence in the later poems of Seamus Heaney / Daniel Tobin

The poetics of reverie and revelation in the last poems / Rand Brandes

"The door stands ppen" : liminal spaces in the later Heaney / Eugene O'Brien.