00.jpg Finedrive_Q300NEW_02_02.jpg 01.jpg 11.jpg. His is close up poetryclose up to thought, to the world, to the emotions. Few writers at work today, in verse or fiction, can give the sense of rich, fecund, lived life that Heaney does.' New Selected Poems 1966 1987 brings together works that echo with the deep connection to the natural world and human experience. 'More than any other poet since Wordsworth he can make us understand that the outside world is not outside, but what we are made of.' John Banville