Collection
Status
Available
Genres
Publication
Faber & Faber (2001), Edition: Main, 80 pages
Description
In this collection, as ever with Heaney, personal memory and humble domestic objects -- a whitewash brush, a sofa, a swing -- are endowed with talismanic significance, and throughout the collection he addresses his growing concerns, which inevitably include the political situation in his native Northern Ireland, in a poetry that never ceases to be fluid, alert, and completely truthful.
Subjects
Awards
Costa Book Awards (Shortlist — Poetry — 1996)
Audie Award (Finalist — Poetry — 1998)
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
7.76 inches
ISBN
9780571178223
User reviews
LibraryThing member NielsenGW
Heaney’s post-Nobel publication is heart-warming poetry at its finest. His words take on a brogue that is both familiar and exotic. He does not need to be coy with the language like Stevens nor difficult like cummings, but rather tries to place the reader in a time or a place that simply needs to
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LibraryThing member Fledgist
A fine collection of verse by a fine poet.
LibraryThing member Figgles
I've taken to reading poetry on the train and the bus and Seamus Heaney's work is an incomparable travel companion. I feel he's so far above anything I can say - these poems take you to both specific moments and places and to universal truths and experiences. Read Heaney.
LibraryThing member b.masonjudy
Reading my first full collection of Heaney I was forced to really slow down. He draws on language that has heavy sounds, real weight, and a lot of unfamiliar verbiage to a Canadian whose only spent a year in the UK. The poems that stayed with me were earthly but also transcendental and I could've
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