District & Circle: Poems

A T. S. Eliot Prize and Irish Times Poetry Now Award–winning poetry collection from the Irish Nobel laureate.

"The world shines up from these pages with refreshed particularity and tactile exactitude." —Peter Campion, The Boston Sunday Globe

In their haunted, almost visionary clarity, the poems of District and Circle, Seamus Heaney's critically acclaimed collection, assay the weight and worth of what has been held in the hand and in the memory. Scenes from a childhood spent far from the horro...