District and Circle
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District and Circle

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District and Circle

About this book

Seamus Heaney's new collection starts 'in an age of bare hands and cast iron' and ends 'as the automatic lock / clunks shut' in the eerie new conditions of a menaced twentieth-first century. In their haunted, almost visionary clarity, the poems assay the weight and worth of what has been held in the hand and in the memory. Images out of a childhood spent safe from the horrors of World War II - railway sleepers, a sledgehammer, the 'heavyweight silence' of cattle out in rain - are coloured by a strongly contemporary sense that 'anything can happen' and other images from the dangerous present - a journey on the underground, a melting glacier - are fraught with this same anxiety.

But District and Circle, which includes a number of prose poems and translations, offers resistance as the poet gathers his staying powers and stands his ground in the hiding places of love and excited language. In a sequence like 'The Tollund Man in Springtime' and in several poems which 'do the rounds of the district' - its known roads and rivers and trees, its familiar and unfamiliar ghosts - the gravity of memorial is transformed into the grace of recollection. With more relish and conviction than ever, Seamus Heaney maintains his trust in the obduracy of workaday realities and the mystery of everyday renewals.

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2009
eBook ISBN
9780571250745
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
European Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Table of Contents
  5. District and Circle
  6. The Turnip-Snedder
  7. A Shiver
  8. Polish Sleepers
  9. Anahorish
  10. To Mick Joyce In Heaven
  11. The Aerodrome
  12. Anything Can Happen
  13. Helmet
  14. Out of Shot
  15. Rilke: After the Fire
  16. District and Circle
  17. To George Seferis in the Underworld
  18. Wordsworth’s Skates
  19. The Harrow-Pin
  20. Poet to Blacksmith
  21. Midnight Anvil
  22. Súgán
  23. Senior Infants
  24. The Nod
  25. A Clip
  26. Edward Thomas on the Lagans Road
  27. Found Prose
  28. The Lift
  29. Nonce Words
  30. Stern
  31. Out of This World
  32. In Iowa
  33. Höfn
  34. On the Spot
  35. The Tollund Man in Springtime
  36. Moyulla
  37. Planting the Alder
  38. Tate’s Avenue
  39. A Hagging Match
  40. Fiddleheads
  41. To Pablo Neruda in Tamlaghtduff
  42. Home Help
  43. Rilke: The Apple Orchard
  44. Quitting Time
  45. Home Fires
  46. The Birch Grove
  47. Cavafy: ‘The Rest I’ll Speak of to the Ones Below in Hades’
  48. In A Loaning
  49. The Blackbird of Glanmore
  50. Notes and Acknowledgements
  51. Praise
  52. By the Same Author
  53. About the Author
  54. Copyright

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