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District and Circle: Poems by Seamus Heaney is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is District and Circle: Poems about?
<p>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 twenty-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 colored 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. <br><br>But<i> District and Circle</i>, 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 conv
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- Author
- Seamus Heaney
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781466855496
- Category
- work of literary fiction
- Subjects
- Poetry, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.5 / 5 (63 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14