Sweeney Astray
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Photographer Rachel Giese and Heaney later collaborated to juxtapose selected passages of Heaney's translation with Giese's photographs of sites mentioned in the text, a work published as Sweeney's Flight.[5][6]
Editions
- Seamus Heaney, Sweeney Astray: A Version from the Irish (Derry: Field Day Publications, 1983), Template:ISBN
- Seamus Heaney, Sweeney Astray (London: Faber, 1984), Template:ISBN
- Seamus Heaney and Rachael Giese, Sweeney's Flight: Based on the Revised Text of 'Sweeney Astray', with the Complete Revised Text of 'Sweeney Astray' (New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1992); pp. 85–117 print the complete text, with revisions
- Seamus Heaney, Sweeney Astray (London: Faber and Faber, 2001) Template:ISBN; prints the revised text first published in Sweeney's Flight
Anthologisations
Selections from Sweeney Astray appear in:
- Seamus Heaney, New Selected Poems 1966–1987 (London: Faber and Faber, 1990), Template:ISBN
- Seamus Heaney, Opened Ground: Poems 1966–1996 (London: Faber and Faber, 1998), Template:ISBN
References
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