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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 haContinue
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guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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Arms around the world
District and Circleby Seamus Heaney Faber £12.99, pp76 In his 12th collection of poetry in 40 years, and his first in five, Seamus Heaney describes a world overshadowed by war, a place in which both the power and the horror of violence seem inescapab ... (read full critics)
guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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- English Books
- Hardcover 80 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0571230962
- ISBN-13: 9780571230969
- Publisher: Faber and Faber
- Pub date: Apr 06, 2006
- Also available as: Paperback
- In other languages: other languages
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District and Circle, by Seamus Heaney (76pp, Faber, £12.99) When Seamus Heaney started writing at full throttle in the 1970s, much mention was made of Robert Lowell's judgment that he was "the best Irish poet since Yeats". As soundbites go, this was ... (read full critics)