Seamus Heaney: DISTRICT & CIRCLE P/B FABER Z16 [2011] paperback ANTHO a brash co-worker

a brash co-worker

to his criminal conviction and final years of exile in France

its most resonant symbol

suspenseful and downright chilling

Seamus Heaney: DISTRICT & CIRCLE P/B FABER Z16 [2011] paperback ANTHO a brash co-workerSeamus 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