| Edition |
1st American ed. |
| Description |
81 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
The Rain Stick -- To a Dutch Potter in Ireland -- A Brigid's Girdle -- Mint -- A Sofa in the Forties -- Keeping Going -- Two Lorries -- Damson -- Weighing In -- St Kevin and the Blackbird -- The Flight Path -- An Invocation -- Mycenae Lookout -- 1. The Watchman's War -- 2. Cassandra -- 3. His Dawn vision -- 4. The Nights -- 5. His Reverie of Water -- The First Words -- The Gravel Walks -- Whitby-sur-Moyola -- The Thimble -- The Butter-Print -- Remembered Columns -- 'Poet's Chair' -- The Swing -- The Poplar -- Two Stick Drawings -- A Call -- The Errand -- A Dog Was Crying Tonight in Wicklow Also -- M. -- An Architect -- The Sharping Stone -- The Strand -- The Walk -- At the Wellhead -- At Banagher -- Tollund. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Awards |
Whitbread Book of the Year, 1996. |
| Subject |
Northern Ireland -- Poetry.
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Ireland -- Poetry.
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Ireland. (OCoLC)fst01205427
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Northern Ireland. (OCoLC)fst01205215
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English poetry.
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry.
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Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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| ISBN |
0374525110 |
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9780374525118 |
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0374267790 |
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9780374267797 |
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0374975256 (boxed set) |
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9780374975258 (boxed set) |
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