His first collection of poems "Death of a naturalist" was published in 1966 and deals with childhood and experience of life on his fathers farm, in particular Digging and Follower; which focus on

... Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney was born April 1939, the eldest member of a family containing nine children. His father lived and worked on a farm of fifty acres in Northern Ireland which was economically less prosperous than Britain, and his father's real commitment was to cattle dealing. Seamus grew up as a country boy; his poems first came to public attention in the mid-1960s when he was active as one of a group of poets who were subsequently recognized as constituting something of a "Northern School" within Irish writing and at the time having to deal with the war and troubles of Northern Ireland. His first collection of poems "Death of a naturalist" was published in 1966 and deals with childhood and experience of life on his fathers farm, in particular Digging and Follower; which focus on his relationship with his father and how he feels as he matures. By the time

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