''The Spirit Level'' is a 1996 poetry collection written 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 Nobel Prize in Literature. It won the poetry prize for the

1996 Whitbread Awards The Costa Book Awards were a set of annual literary awards recognising English-language books by writers based in UK and Ireland. Originally named the Whitbread Book Awards from 1971 to 2005 after its first sponsor, the Whitbread company, then ...

. Heaney has been recorded reading this collection on the ''

Seamus Heaney Collected Poems ''Collected Poems'' is a spoken-word recording of the Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney reading his own work. It was released by RTÉ to mark his 70th birthday, which occurred on 13 April 2009. The fifteen-CD box set, boxed set * * * * ...

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* The Rain Stick * To a Dutch Potter in Ireland 1. * To a Dutch Potter in Ireland 2. After Liberation * A Brigid's Girdle * Mint * A Sofa in the Forties * Keeping Going * Two Lorries * Damson * Weighing In * St Kevin and the Blackbird * The Flight Path 1 * The Flight Path 2 * The Flight Path 3 * The Flight Path 4 * The Flight Path 5 * The Flight Path 6 * An Invocation * Mycenae Lookout 1. The Watchman's War * Mycenae Lookout 2. Cassandra * Mycenae Lookout 3. His Dawn Vision * Mycenae Lookout 4. The Nights * Mycenae Lookout 5. The Reverie of Water * The First Words * The Gravel Walks * Whitby-sur-Moyola * The Thimble * The Butter-Print * Remembered Columns * 'Poet's Chair' * The Swing * The Poplar * Two Stick Drawings (1) * Two Stick Drawings (2) * A Call * The Errand * A Dog Was Crying Tonight in Wicklow Also * M. * An Architect * The Sharping Stone * The Strand * The Walk * At the Wellhead * At Banagher * Tollund * Postscript

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