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District and Circle: Poems Hardcover – May 30, 2006

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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 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.

But District and Circle, 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 conviction than ever, Seamus Heaney maintains his trust in the obduracy of workaday realities and the mystery of everyday renewals.

District and Circle is the winner of the 2007 Poetry Now award and the 2006 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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May 30, 2006
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5.5 x 0.38 x 8.5 inches
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978-0374140922
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The latest from the Irish Nobel laureate may be his best in more than a decade. Celebrations of everyday objects (a fireman's helmet, a sledgehammer, an anvil), homages to and elegies for other poets (George Seferis, Pablo Neruda, Czeslaw Milosz) and gleaming recollections from the author's rural youth dominate this lyrical volume, which stands out as well for its diversity of forms: the supple pentameters Heaney perfected in such 1990s volumes as Seeing Things rub shoulders with prose poems, rough-hewn quatrains and slower-paced free verse reminiscent of the 1970s poems that made his name. Many efforts strike a ground note of nostalgia: "A Clip" remembers the "one-roomed, one-chimney house" where Heaney got his first haircut, "Senior Infants" looks back at primary school. Yet for all his Irish rootedness, Heaney's newest work remains international (poems set in the London Underground, the Danish bog where he set famous earlier poems, and in a warm and pleasant Italy) and unboundedly global: one of the strongest short lyrics, "Hofn," wonders at a newly melting glacier, anxious about global warming, yet astonished by the ice's remaining immensities, its "grey-gristed earth-pelt, aeon-scruff," "its coldness that still seemed enough/ To iceblock the plane window dimmed with breath." (May)
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Critics describe Heaney's newest book of poetry as original, startling, authentic, even supernaturaland his strongest collection in two decades. Reminiscent of his earliest collections in its earth-and-labor-centered vision, this volume is all the wiser with hindsight. While displaying a similar sensitivity toward humans, the same lyricism (a subway strap is "a stubby black roof-wort"), and a familiar down-to-earth attitude, District and Circle also asks questions about our impact on Earth. Latin and Gaelic words, as well as references to Dante and Greek myth, may have some readers scrabbling for the dictionarybut even for them, reading Heaney's poems is entirely worth the effort.

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Nobel laureate Heaney is a virtual archaeologist, digging deeply into the earth in search of civilization's foundation and mining the human psyche for what is immutable, archetypal, and quintessential in our collective unconscious. Identifying resonantly with the Irish landscape, Heaney is a poet of labor, praising hammer and anvil, trowel and blade. Many poets possess a painterly sensibility; Heaney's is sculptural, his materials clay, stone, and brick. This bard of the hand-hewn and the hard-won, the bog and the country road, builds poems out of quatrains, that sturdy form, and constructs rock-solid sonnets. Looking to the past with tenderness and bemusement, steeped in myths ancient and modern, he recalls when tinkers appeared in his home district, muses over the changes war and technology deliver, contemplates a melting glacier, and traces the lineage between catastrophes of old and today's crises: "Anything can happen, the tallest towers / Be overturned, those in high places daunted, / Those overlooked regarded. Stropped-beak Fortune / Swoops, making the air gasp, tearing the crest off one, / Setting it down bleeding on the next." Donna Seaman
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“Heaney's status as one of the most significant poets writing in English and the greatest Irish poet since Yeats in already well established. Electric Light is further confirmation of his power to capture and transcend the immediacy of the moment, to find the stillness at the heart of things.” ―Joe Treasure, Los Angeles Times Book Review on Electric Light

“Electric Light includes poems that are sparks of fulminating retrospection . . . To say it the best I can . . . [Heaney] exercises poetry's power to proclaim truth and the artist's power to make us know that it is a truth we can't be without . . . Engagement is the heart of a poem . . . and Mr. Heaney's strongest engagement in this collection is with time: the past that lives, the present that dies.” ―Richard Eder, The New York Times on Electric Light

About the Author

Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. His poems, plays, translations, and essays include Opened Ground, Electric Light, Beowulf, The Spirit Level, District and Circle, and Finders Keepers. Robert Lowell praised Heaney as the "most important Irish poet since Yeats."

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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1st edition (May 30, 2006)
Language : English
Hardcover : 78 pages
ISBN-10 : 0374140928
ISBN-13 : 978-0374140922
Item Weight : 9.6 ounces
Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.38 x 8.5 inches

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Jay Warner

Literary Genius

Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2014

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No wonder Seamus Heaney was the poet laureate of Ireland. His poems are thought provoking and stir up images of Ireland past and present. This is a book I can pick up again and again and just read a poem here and there depending on my mood or desire. It's a book to be savored rather than devoured. Any fan of Irish history, literature, culture, or geography will find it difficult not to get immersed in the captivating language, rhythm and flow of these poems... like music to the soul.

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LlamaMama

Real people and places drew me in.

Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2013

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I listened to an interview with Mr Heaney on NPR. I am of Irish decent and we are planning a trip to Ireland in the Spring. He had one poem in which he mentioned my ancestral name, so I purchased this book. His poems are stories and picturesque descriptions of the country and the people. Its like listening in on a conversation about people and places he knows. I'm reading them over and over again.

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Steven R. Severance

I keep trying to like him but don't

Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2014

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Why do so many people admire this poet? I keep trying but failing to. I think he is best if you actually hear him read aloud. On the page, unless you are Irish the music gets lost.

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N. Gallo

The Drum Major of Modern Poetry

Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2006

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You cannot read these poems without feeling better about the whole universe. He hears an underground piper. His house has no upstairs. He celebrates stretcher bearers, bricklayers. Turns walls into air. He chooses red haws and whins, brogues and rigs, cripples with perseverence and we feel the work as we go along. He watches the pollen sowings tarnish her pools. He's mother nature's strong right hand and eye. God bless him.

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W. D. Davies

A LOVELY BOOK

Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2007

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THIS IS WHAT A 'SLIM VOLUME' SHOULD BE, HARD COVER,WELL BOUND, QUALITY PAPER, EASY TO SLIP INTO A POCKET AND SIP FROM AT ODD MOMENTS. WONDERFUL POEMS, LIKE A SERIES OF SNAPSHOTS - WHAT ONE EXPECTS FROM SEAMUS HEANEY, A VARIETY OF INTENSE, IMMEDIATE; SHARED MOMENTS, LIKE THE 'COLD SMOOTH CREEPING STEEL AND SNICKING SCISSORS' OF CLIP.

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Ellen V. Kanter

Exactly what I needed.Thank you!

Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2019

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As a Family member gift.

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Randy W. Burns

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Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2017

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As described

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Walter Adair

Better poet than Yeats

Reviewed in the United States on November 22, 2013

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Seamus is a special writer and story teller. Better than Yeats in my view. Ireland is a land of story tellers and he is one of the best.

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Brian Last

Goodbye to all that

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 11, 2014

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Heaney is a "legen" in his own time (I'm sure he would forgive the cliche). He always comes across as a modest man and makes no exaggerated claims: he has nothin to declare except his genius. The poetry can and must be read over and over. Read and let it speak for itself.

Mary Bronte

Please read this collection

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 9, 2013

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I was so sad to hear of the death of Seamus Heaney, a truly great poet. I bought this to mark the sad occasion as I had neglected to read these poems up til now. I keep them on my bedside table and read and contemplate on one each night.
Highly recommended.

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E. Grace

enjoy this!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 21, 2013

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I enjoy the poetry of Seamus Heaney as he writes with clarity and wonderfully descriptive language. He is down-to-earth, being able to see all sides of conflict in his own country.

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Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 2, 2014

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Has all the qualities we expect even for the unexpected location.

Brigid Gallagher

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 14, 2015

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Great poetry. B. Gallagher

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