Seamus Heaney was 'the greatest poet of our age' (Guardian) From his remarkable debut in 1966 he pioneered the poetry of our times across five decades of cultural & political change & was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995 Field Work his fifth volume from 1979 is a collection of poems that were among the finest he would ever write Inspired by the four years that Heaney & his family spent in rural County Wicklow after leaving the violence of Belfast Field Work is one of the poet's most celebrated volumes The collection contains some of his best-loved poems ' Oysters' ' Casualty' ' The Otter' ' The Strand at Lough Beg' & ' The Skunk' as well as his defining sequence ' Glanmore Sonnets'