Description
A landmark collection of poetry, *North* brings the landscapes, histories, and divided identities of Northern Ireland into haunting conversation with the wider mythology of Northern Europe. Drawing on rural memory, archaeological discoveries, and the ancient symbolism of bog bodies, the poems confront the violence and political unrest of the Troubles without reducing them to simple answers. Across its two sections, Seamus Heaney moves from intimate observations of place and family toward a darker, more expansive meditation on memory, history, guilt, and exile. Musical, richly textured, and morally searching, the collection established a new scale and ambition in Heaney’s poetry.
Available Editions
paperback
Faber and Faber
Published Jan 1, 1975
73 pages
ISBN: 0571105645
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Details
First Published
1975
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for North by Seamus Heaney.