The Spirit Level is a 1996 poetry collection written by Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. It won the poetry prize for the 1996 Whitbread Awards.^[1]

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

• The Rain Stick
• To a Dutch Potter in Ireland 1.
• To a Dutch Potter in Ireland 2. After Liberation
• A Brigid's Girdle
• Mint
• A Sofa in the Forties
• Keeping Going
• Two Lorries
• Damson
• Weighing In
• St Kevin and the Blackbird
• The Flight Path 1
• The Flight Path 2
• The Flight Path 3
• The Flight Path 4
• The Flight Path 5
• The Flight Path 6
• An Invocation
• Mycenae Lookout 1. The Watchman's War
• Mycenae Lookout 2. Cassandra
• Mycenae Lookout 3. His Dawn Vision
• Mycenae Lookout 4. The Nights
• Mycenae Lookout 5. The Reverie of Water
• The First Words
• The Gravel Walks
• Whitby-sur-Moyola
• The Thimble
• The Butter-Print
• Remembered Columns
• 'Poet's Chair'
• The Swing
• The Poplar
• Two Stick Drawings (1)
• Two Stick Drawings (2)
• A Call
• The Errand
• A Dog Was Crying Tonight in Wicklow Also
• M.
• An Architect
• The Sharping Stone
• The Strand
• The Walk
• At the Wellhead
• At Banagher
• Tollund
• Postscript