Description
In this richly varied collection, Seamus Heaney finds poetry in tangible objects, fleeting encounters, remembered lives, and conversations with writers across centuries and cultures. From urban journeys and underground stations to rural tools, departed figures, and the natural world, these poems explore mortality, memory, inheritance, guilt, and the fragile connections between strangers. Heaney’s translations, elegies, dedications, and imaginative reworkings of poets such as Horace, Rilke, and Wordsworth deepen the collection’s meditation on artistic lineage and the persistence of the past. Written with his characteristic precision, musicality, and moral attentiveness, the book is a powerful late work by one of the English language’s most celebrated poets.
Available Editions
paperback
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published Apr 3, 2007
78 pages
ISBN: 9780374530815
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Details
First Published
2006
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for District and Circle by Seamus Heaney.