Finders keepers : selected prose, 1971-2001 /
Seamus Heaney.
- London : Faber and Faber, 2002.
- x, 416p.
"This book reprints work extracted from Preoccupations (1980), The Government of the Tongue (1988), The Redress of Poetry (1995) and The Palace of Writing (Scholars Press, 1989), a volume containing the Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature given at Emory University 1988. Also included are several pieces not previously collected in volume form, ranging from short newspaper articles to more extended lectures and contributions to books" - ix.