District and circle / Seamus Heaney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013

Language:

English

Physical Description:

78 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.

Summary:

Heaney's new collection of poetry maintains his trust in the implacableness of workaday realities and the mystery of everyday renewals.

Contents:

The Turnip-Snedder 3

A Shiver 5

Polish Sleepers 6

Anahorish 1944 7

To Mick Joyce in Heaven 8

The Aerodrome 11

Anything Can Happen 13

Helmet 14

Out of Shot 15

Rilke: After the Fire 16

District and Circle 17

To George Seferis in the Underworld 22

Wordsworth's Skates 24

The Harrow-Pin 25

Poet to Blacksmith 27

Midnight Anvil 28

Sugan 30

Senior Infants 31

1 The Sally Rod

2 A Chow

3 One Christmas Day in the Morning

The Nod 34

A Clip 35

Edward Thomas on the Lagans Road 36

Found Prose 37

1 The Lagans Road

2 Tall Dames

3 Boarders

The Lift 40

Nonce Words 42

Stern 44

Out of This World 45

1 "Like everybody else..."

2 Brancardier

3 Saw Music

In Iowa 50

Hofn 51

On the Spot 52

The Tollund Man in Springtime 53

Moyulla 59

Planting the Alder 62

Tate's Avenue 63

A Hagging Match 64

Fiddleheads 65

To Pablo Neruda in Tamlaghtduff 66

Home Help 68

1 Helping Sarah

2 Chairing Mary

Rilke: The Apple Orchard 70

Quitting Time 71

Home Fires 72

1 A Scuttle for Dorothy Wordsworth

2 A Stove Lid for W. H. Auden

The Birch Grove 74

Cavafy: "The rest I'll speak of to the ones below in Hades" 75

In a Loaning 76

The Blackbird of Glanmore 77.

ISBN:

0374140928

OCLC:

61748460

Publisher Number:

9780374140922

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