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Faber will publish Seamus Heaney's new selected poems, covering the second half of the late poet's career.
New Selected Poems 1988 – 2013 will be published in November 2014 in demy hardback, priced at £18.99.
It will provide an accompaniment to New Selected Poems 1966 – 1987, originally published in 1990. Heaney, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, had been in discussion with Faber about the release, covering his career "from Seeing Things onwards". Though he died in September last year, the selections he chose have been followed here.
Matthew Hollis, poetry editor at Faber, said: "We are very grateful to the Heaney family for their help and support with this landmark publication of one of our great and most cherished poets."
The Heaney family said in a statement: "After a year when we as a family have been heartbroken by the loss of a husband and father, we can think of no better tribute to the man and poet we so miss than the publication of New Selected Poems 1988–2013, which gathers together personal selections of his later work for the first time. We are especially thankful to Matthew Hollis, and everyone at Faber and Faber, for bringing to completion this wonderful companion volume to New Selected Poems 1966–1987."
The book will contain selections from Heaney's 1991 volume, Seeing Things, his two Whitbread Books of the Year, The Spirit Level and Beowulf, as well as Electric Light, District and Circle and Human Chain. It concludes with his final poem, In Time.
Faber will publish a new hardback edition of New Selected Poems 1966 – 1987 to coincide with the new book.