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Electric Light
	Hardback first American edition
Author	Seamus Heaney
Language	English
Genre	Poetry collection
Publisher	Faber and Faber, London
Publication date	2001
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print
Pages	81
ISBN	978-0-571-20798-5
OCLC	45592796
Preceded by	The Spirit Level
Followed by	District and Circle

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Electric Light (Faber and Faber, 2001, ISBN 978-0-571-20798-5) is a poetry collection by Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. The collection explores childhood, nature, and poetry itself.

Part one presents translations and adaptations, occasional and celebratory poems, and verse about travel in the Gaeltacht, the Balkans and Greece. Part two of the collection consists of elegies for poets (Ted Hughes, Joseph Brodsky, and Zbigniew Herbert), and Heaney's relatives and friends.

Heaney has been recorded reading this collection on the Seamus Heaney Collected Poems album.

At Toomebridge
Perch
Lupins
Out of the Bag 1
Out of the Bag 2
Out of the Bag 3
Out of the Bag 4
Bann Valley Eclogue
Montana
The Loose Box
Turpin Song
The Border Campaign
Known World
The Little Canticles of Asturias 1
The Little Canticles of Asturias 2
The Little Canticles of Asturias 3
Ballynahinch Lake
The Clothes Shrine
Red, White and Blue 1. Red
Red, White and Blue 2. White
Red, White and Blue 3. Blue
Virgil: Eclogue IX
Glanmore Eclogue
Sonnets from Hellas 1. Into Arcadia
Sonnets from Hellas 2. Conkers
Sonnets from Hellas 3. Pylos
Sonnets from Hellas 4. The Augean Stables
Sonnets from Hellas 5. Castalian Spring
Sonnets from Hellas 6. Desfina
The Gaeltacht
The Real Name
The Bookcase
Vitruviana
Ten Glosses 1. The Marching Season
Ten Glosses 2. The Catechism
Ten Glosses 3. The Bridge
Ten Glosses 4. A Suit
Ten Glosses 5. The Party
Ten Glosses 6. W. H. Auden 1907-73
Ten Glosses 7. The Lesson
Ten Glosses 8. Moling's Gloss
Ten Glosses 9. Colly
Ten Glosses 10. A Norman Simile
The Fragment
On His Work in the English Tongue (1)
On His Work in the English Tongue (2)
On His Work in the English Tongue (3)
On His Work in the English Tongue (4)
On His Work in the English Tongue (5)
Audenesque
To the Shade of Zbigniew Herbert
'Would They Had Stay'd'
Late in the Day
Arion
Bodies and Souls
Clonmany to Ahascragh
Sruth
Seeing the Sick
Electric Light

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+{{Infobox book
-[[Seamus Heaney | Seamus Heaney's]] tenth collection of poems (Faber and Faber, 2001, ISBN 978-0374528416) explores childhood, nature, and poetry itself.
+| name           = Electric Light
+| image          = File:ElectricLightHeaney.jpg
+| caption        = Hardback first American edition
+| author         = [[Seamus Heaney]]
+| country        = United Kingdom
+| language       = English
+| genre          = [[Poetry|Poetry collection]]
+| publisher      = [[Faber and Faber]], London
+| release_date   = 2001
+| media_type     = Print
+| pages          = 81
+| isbn           = 978-0-571-20798-5
+| oclc           = 45592796
+| preceded_by    = [[The Spirit Level (poetry book)|The Spirit Level]]
+| followed_by    = [[District and Circle]]
+}}
+'''''Electric Light''''' ([[Faber and Faber]], 2001, {{ISBN|978-0-571-20798-5}}) is a poetry collection by [[Seamus Heaney]], who received the 1995 [[Nobel Prize in Literature]]. The collection explores childhood, nature, and poetry itself.
 Part one presents translations and adaptations, occasional and celebratory poems, and verse about travel in the [[Gaeltacht]], the [[Balkans]] and [[Greece]]. Part two of the collection consists of elegies for poets ([[Ted Hughes]], [[Joseph Brodsky]], and [[Zbigniew Herbert]]), and Heaney's relatives and friends.
-Heaney has been recorded reading this collection on the [[Seamus Heaney Collected Poems album]].
+Heaney has been recorded reading this collection on the ''[[Seamus Heaney Collected Poems]]'' album.
+==Contents==
+* At Toomebridge
-==The poems==
+* Perch
+* Lupins
+* Out of the Bag 1
+* Out of the Bag 2
+* Out of the Bag 3
+* Out of the Bag 4
+* Bann Valley Eclogue
+* Montana
+* The Loose Box
+* Turpin Song
+* The Border Campaign
+* Known World
+* The Little Canticles of Asturias 1
+* The Little Canticles of Asturias 2
+* The Little Canticles of Asturias 3
+* Ballynahinch Lake
+* The Clothes Shrine
+* Red, White and Blue 1. Red
+* Red, White and Blue 2. White
+* Red, White and Blue 3. Blue
+* Virgil: Eclogue IX
+* Glanmore Eclogue
+* Sonnets from Hellas 1. Into Arcadia
+* Sonnets from Hellas 2. Conkers
+* Sonnets from Hellas 3. Pylos
+* Sonnets from Hellas 4. The Augean Stables
+* Sonnets from Hellas 5. Castalian Spring
+* Sonnets from Hellas 6. Desfina
+* The Gaeltacht
+* The Real Name
+* The Bookcase
+* Vitruviana
+* Ten Glosses 1. The Marching Season
+* Ten Glosses 2. The Catechism
+* Ten Glosses 3. The Bridge
+* Ten Glosses 4. A Suit
+* Ten Glosses 5. The Party
+* Ten Glosses 6. W. H. Auden 1907-73
+* Ten Glosses 7. The Lesson
+* Ten Glosses 8. Moling's Gloss
+* Ten Glosses 9. Colly
+* Ten Glosses 10. A Norman Simile
+* The Fragment
+* On His Work in the English Tongue (1)
+* On His Work in the English Tongue (2)
+* On His Work in the English Tongue (3)
+* On His Work in the English Tongue (4)
+* On His Work in the English Tongue (5)
+* Audenesque
+* To the Shade of Zbigniew Herbert
+* 'Would They Had Stay'd'
+* Late in the Day
+* Arion
+* Bodies and Souls
+* Clonmany to Ahascragh
+* Sruth
+* Seeing the Sick
+* Electric Light
+==External links==
-At Toomebridge   <br />
+* [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/jun/16/poetry.features Lux perpetua: Seamus Heaney on the making of his collection, ''Electric Light'']
-Perch   <br />
+* [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/mar/23/poetry.seamusheaney1 Ten Glosses: Verse by Seamus Heaney]
-Lupins   <br />
-Out of the Bag 1   <br />
-Out of the Bag 2   <br />
-Out of the Bag 3   <br />
-Out of the Bag 4   <br />
-Bann Valley Eclogue   <br />
-Montana   <br />
-The Loose Box   <br />
-Turpin Song   <br />
-The Border Campaign   <br />
-Known World   <br />
-The Little Canticles of Asturias 1   <br />
-The Little Canticles of Asturias 2   <br />
-The Little Canticles of Asturias 3   <br />
-Ballynahinch Lake   <br />
-The Clothes Shrine   <br />
-Red, White and Blue 1. Red   <br />
-Red, White and Blue 2. White   <br />
-Red, White and Blue 3. Blue   <br />
-Virgil: Eclogue IX   <br />
-Glanmore Eclogue   <br />
-Sonnets from Hellas 1. Into Arcadia   <br />
-Sonnets from Hellas 2. Conkers   <br />
-Sonnets from Hellas 3. Pylos   <br />
-Sonnets from Hellas 4. The Augean Stables   <br />
-Sonnets from Hellas 5. Castalian Spring   <br />
-Sonnets from Hellas 6. Desfina   <br />
-The Gaeltacht   <br />
-The Real Name   <br />
-The Bookcase   <br />
-Vitruviana   <br />
-Ten Glosses 1. The Marching Season   <br />
-Ten Glosses 2. The Catechism   <br />
-Ten Glosses 3. The Bridge   <br />
-Ten Glosses 4. A Suit   <br />
-Ten Glosses 5. The Party   <br />
-Ten Glosses 6. W. H. Auden 1907-73   <br />
-Ten Glosses 7. The Lesson   <br />
-Ten Glosses 8. Moling's Gloss   <br />
-Ten Glosses 9. Colly   <br />
-Ten Glosses 10. A Norman Simile   <br />
-The Fragment   <br />
-On His Work in the English Tongue (1)   <br />
-On His Work in the English Tongue (2)   <br />
-On His Work in the English Tongue (3)   <br />
-On His Work in the English Tongue (4)   <br />
-On His Work in the English Tongue (5)   <br />
-Audenesque   <br />
-To the Shade of Zbigniew Herbert   <br />
-'Would They Had Stay'd'   <br />
-Late in the Day   <br />
-Arion   <br />
-Bodies and Souls   <br />
-Clonmany to Ahascragh   <br />
-Sruth   <br />
-Seeing the Sick   <br />
-Electric Light   <br />
+{{Seamus Heaney}}
+[[Category:2001 poetry books]]
-==External links==
+[[Category:Irish poetry collections]]
+[[Category:Poetry by Seamus Heaney]]
+[[Category:Faber & Faber books]]
-* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2001/jun/16/poetry.features Lux perpetua: Seamus Heaney on the making of his collection, ''Electric Light'']
-* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2001/mar/23/poetry.seamusheaney1 Ten Glosses: Verse by Seamus Heaney]
+{{poetry-collection-stub}}
-[[Category:Irish poetry]]
-[[Category:Poetry by Seamus Heaney]]
-[[Category:Poetry by author]]