Sweeney Astray

Sweeney Astray is Seamus Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibne. Its here, Mad Sweeney, undergoes a series of purgatorial adventures after he is cursed by a saint and turned into a bird at the Battle of Moira. Heaney's translation not only restores to us a work of historical and literary importance but offers the genius of one of our greatest living poets to reinforce its claims on the reader of contemporary literature.

• Author
• Seamus Heaney

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 96

• Publisher
• Farrar, Straus and Giroux

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-374-51894-3

• EAN
• 9780374518943

• Genres
• poetry, ireland, mythology, medieval, school, history, classics, historical

• Release date
• 1985