Seeing Things is the ninth poetry collection by Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. It was published in 1991. Heaney draws inspiration from the visions of afterlife in Virgil and Dante Alighieri in order to come to terms with the death of his father, Patrick, in 1986. The title, Seeing Things, refers both to the solid, fluctuating world of objects and to a haunted, hallucinatory realm of the imagination. Heaney has been recorded reading this collection on the Seamus Heaney Collected Poems album. The Golden Bough PART I The Journey Back Markings Three Drawings 1. The Point Three Drawings 2. The Pulse Three Drawings 3. A Haul Casting and Gathering Man and Boy Seeing Things I Seeing Things II Seeing Things III The Ash Plant 1.1.87 An August Night Field of Vision The Pitchfork A Basket of Chestnuts The Biretta The Settle Bed The Schoolbag Glanmore Revisited 1. Scrabble Glanmore Revisited 2. The Cot Glanmore Revisited 3. Scene Shifts Glanmore Revisited 4. 1973 Glanmore Revisited 5. Lustral Sonnet Glanmore Revisited 6. Bedside Reading Glanmore Revisited 7. The Skylight A Pillowed Head A Royal Prospect A Retrospect The Rescue Wheels within Wheels The Sounds of Rain Fosterling PART II - SQUARINGS 1: Lightenings Lightenings i Lightenings ii Lightenings iii Lightenings iv Lightenings v Lightenings vi Lightenings vii Lightenings viii Lightenings ix Lightenings x Lightenings xi Lightenings xii 2: Settings Settings xiii Settings xiv Settings xv Settings xvi Settings xvii Settings xviii Settings xix Settings xx Settings xxi Settings xxii Settings xxiii Settings xxiv 3: Crossings Crossings xxv Crossings xxvi Crossings xxvii Crossings xxviii Crossings xxix Crossings xxx Crossings xxxi Crossings xxxii Crossings xxxiii Crossings xxxiv Crossings xxxv Crossings xxxvi 4. Squarings Squarings xxxvii Squarings xxxviii Squarings xxxix Squarings xl Squarings xli Squarings xlii Squarings xliii Squarings xliv Squarings xlv Squarings xlvi Squarings xlvii Squarings xlviii The Crossing References 1991 poetry books Irish poetry collections Poetry by Seamus Heaney Faber and Faber books