''Human Chain'' (2010) is the twelfth and final poetry collection by

Seamus Heaney Seamus Justin Heaney (; 13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.

, who received the 1995

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. It won the

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Best Collection 2010 award, the

Irish Times Poetry Now Award The Poetry Now Award is an annual literary prize presented for the best single volume of poetry by an Irish poet. The €5,000 award was first given in 2005 (reduced to €2,500 in 2013) and is presented during annual Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown ...

for 2011, and was shortlisted for the 2011

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. This was Heaney's second Poetry Now Award, having previously won in 2007 for ''

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''.Heaney wins 'Irish Times' poetry award
''

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'', 2011-03-26.

* "Had I not been awake" * Album * The Conway Stewart * Uncoupled * The Butts * Chanson d'Aventure * Miracle * Human Chain * A Mite-Box * An Old Refrain * The Wood Road * The Baler * Derry Derry Down * Eelworks * Slack * A Herbal * Canopy * The Riverbank Field * Route 110 * Death of a Painter * Loughanure * Wraiths * Sweeney Out-takes * ''Colum Cille Cecinit'' * Hermit Songs * "Lick the pencil" * "The door was open and the house was dark" * In the Attic * A Kite for Aibhín

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''Human Chain by Seamus Heaney''
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Colm Tóibín Colm Tóibín (, approximately ; born 30 May 1955) is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, critic, playwright and poet. His first novel, '' The South'', was published in 1990. '' The Blackwater Lightship'' was shortlis ...

, ''The Guardian'', 2010-08-21. Retrieved: 2010-08-23.
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''Seamus Heaney's book of resurrections''
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'A Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man'
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