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A review by greybeard49
District and Circle by Seamus Heaney
5.0
A rare book, to be savoured.
I really enjoyed the variety of poems in this book - he explores the human condition beautifully in poems about modern urban life and his rural upbringing.
Superb laying out of words and so many ‘killer’ lines and titles.
Read ‘The Lift’ - so typical of Heaney - an Irish woman’s life and death and funeral wonderfully laid out.
One verse - ‘
‘A lifetime, then a death time: reticence
Keeping us together when together,
All declaration deemed outspokenness.’
‘The Helmet’ and ‘Midnight Anvil’. Read them.
I really enjoyed the variety of poems in this book - he explores the human condition beautifully in poems about modern urban life and his rural upbringing.
Superb laying out of words and so many ‘killer’ lines and titles.
Read ‘The Lift’ - so typical of Heaney - an Irish woman’s life and death and funeral wonderfully laid out.
One verse - ‘
‘A lifetime, then a death time: reticence
Keeping us together when together,
All declaration deemed outspokenness.’
‘The Helmet’ and ‘Midnight Anvil’. Read them.