Irishman Wins Poetry Prize
Posted by: David Bunch
Ireland and poetry, two topics I enjoy discussing. So check out this news about the Irish poet Seamus Heaney's award for his latest collection of poems.
Ireland and poetry, two topics I enjoy discussing. So check out this news about the Irish poet Seamus Heaney's award for his latest collection of poems.
District and Circle was widely seen as a return to form from the poet Robert Lowell called "the best Irish poet since Yeats". The collection is full of darkness and foreboding, danger ever-present in the warp and weft of ordinary life - a journey on the London Underground, the swing of a sledgehammer, a turnip-snedder. It is a world in which conflict is inescapable, war omnipresent.
