Description
In this evocative collection, rural Northern Ireland becomes a landscape of memory, labor, myth, and transformation. Seamus Heaney turns his attention to farm workers, fishermen, craftsmen, and the rituals of ordinary life, revealing the deep bonds between people, place, and tradition as an older way of living begins to fade. Moving through darkness, dreams, water, and earth, the poems explore absence, continuity, identity, and the quiet dignity of work. Richly lyrical and grounded in precise sensory detail, the collection demonstrates Heaney’s gift for discovering mystery and moral depth in the everyday world.
Available Editions
paperback
Faber
Published Jan 1, 1972
56 pages
ISBN: 0571089984
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Details
First Published
1969
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Door into the Dark by Seamus Heaney.