Sweeney Astray: A Version from the Irish is a version of the Irish poem Buile Shuibhne written by Seamus Heaney, based on an earlier edition and translation by J. G. O'Keeffe.[2][3][4] The work was first published in 1983 and won the 1985 PEN Translation Prize for poetry.[5]
 First edition | |
| Author | Seamus Heaney |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Field Day Publications, Derry/Dublin[1] |
Publication date | 1983-11-01[1] |
| Publication place | Ireland |
| Pages | 85 |
| ISBN | 0-946755-03-5 |
| OCLC | 11339072 |
| 821/.914 19 | |
| LC Class | PR6058.E2 S9 1984b |
Photographer Rachel Giese and Heaney later collaborated to juxtapose selected passages of Heaney's translation with Giese's photographs of sites mentioned in the text, a work published as Sweeney's Flight.[6][7]
Editions
edit- Seamus Heaney, Sweeney Astray: A Version from the Irish (Derry: Field Day Publications, 1983), ISBN 0-946755-03-5
- Seamus Heaney, Sweeney Astray (London: Faber, 1984), ISBN 0571133606
- Seamus Heaney and Rachael Giese, Sweeney's Flight: Based on the Revised Text of 'Sweeney Astray', with the Complete Revised Text of 'Sweeney Astray' (New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1992); pp. 85–117 print the complete text, with revisions
- Seamus Heaney, Sweeney Astray (London: Faber and Faber, 2001) ISBN 0571210090; prints the revised text first published in Sweeney's Flight
Anthologisations
editSelections from Sweeney Astray appear in:
- Seamus Heaney, New Selected Poems 1966–1987 (London: Faber and Faber, 1990), ISBN 9780571143726
- Seamus Heaney, Opened Ground: Poems 1966–1996 (London: Faber and Faber, 1998), ISBN 9780571262793
References
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- ^ a b Saunders, Emma (2010). "Field Day Papers" (PDF). National Library of Ireland. p. 81. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
- ^ John, Brian (December 1985). "Sweeney Astray: A Version from the Irish by Seamus Heaney; Station Island by Seamus Heaney; Hailstones by Seamus Heaney". The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies. 11 (2): 89–91. doi:10.2307/25512647. JSTOR 25512647.
- ^ Downum, Denell (Fall–Winter 2009). "Sweeney Astray: The Other in Oneself". Éire-Ireland. 44 (3 & 4): 75–93. doi:10.1353/eir.0.0050. S2CID 162015621. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
- ^ O'Keeffe, James G. (1913), Buile Shuibhne (The Frenzy of Suibhne). Being the Adventures of Suibhne Geilt. A Middle-Irish Romance, Irish Texts Society, vol. XII, London: D. Nutt, 198pp – via Internet Archive
- ^ "PEN Translation Prize". PEN America. 10 June 2020. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
- ^ McCarthy, Conor (2008). Seamus Heaney and Medieval Poetry. DS Brewer. p. 8. ISBN 9781843841418. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
- ^ Potts, Donna L. (2011). Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Pastoral Tradition. University of Missouri. pp. 63–64. ISBN 9780826219435. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
Sweeney's Flight.