Description
A richly textured collection of poems that explores the connections between human experience, political history, nature, memory, and spiritual longing. Drawing on rural labor, childhood recollections, natural phenomena, and the quiet rituals of ordinary life, the poems transform familiar landscapes into settings of profound emotional and moral significance. Written largely in traditional forms and marked by finely controlled blank verse, the collection balances vivid sensory detail with a searching awareness of what lies beyond the visible and measurable. Its humane, contemplative voice finds dignity and mystery in both individual lives and the communities that shape them.
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ebook
Faber and Faber Ltd
Published Jan 1, 2009
ISBN: 9780571250783
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Details
First Published
1996
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Spirit Level by Seamus Heaney.