An anthology of later work by the Nobel laureate will feature a last poem, In Time, written for his granddaughter Síofra

A poem written for his granddaughter and never published before in the UK will form part of a new collection of selected poems by the late Seamus Heaney, spanning 25 years and "complet[ing] the arc of a remarkable career", his publisher announced on Thursday.

Heaney had discussed "the prospect of a companion volume" to his New Selected Poems 1966–1987 with Faber shortly before his death last August, said the publisher. The collection, he hoped, would be "aimed at presenting the second half of his career, 'from Seeing Things onwards', as he foresaw it," according to Faber. Heaney, who won the Nobel prize for literature in 1995, died before he was able to complete the book, but he left behind selections for the edition, which Faber has followed.

The new selection starts with 1991's Seeing Things, and encompasses poems from his Whitbread award-winning The Spirit Level (1996) and Beowulf (1999), as well as his collections Electric Light (2001), District and Circle (2006) and Human Chain (2010).

The last poem will be Heaney's final work, In Time, which was published in the New Yorker last year but has never been published in the UK. Written for his granddaughter, Síofra, it sees Heaney write of how "your bare foot on the floor / Keeps me in step", and of how, "Listening to Bach / I saw you years from now / (More years than I'll be allowed) / Your toddler wobbles gone, / A sure and grown woman."

To be published in November this year, the new selection will join Heaney's earlier Selected Poems 1966–1987. The Heaney family said that "after a year when we as a family have been heartbroken by the loss of a husband and father, we can think of no better tribute to the man and poet we so miss" than the new volume's publication, "which gathers together personal selections of his later work for the first time".

Faber's poetry editor Matthew Hollis called the book a "landmark publication of one of our great and most cherished poets".