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Irish poet Seamus Heaney has won the T.S. Eliot Prize for poetry for “District and Circle,” the judges announced last week. Heaney’s 12th collection is a sequence of sonnets recalling the ...

Seamus Heaney may well be the poet of our age ... Late Heaney, as in 2006's "District and Circle" and this volume's "Route 110," ponders the journeys of modern life, in the present and recent ...

Many efforts strike a ground note of nostalgia: "A Clip" remembers the "one-roomed, one-chimney house" where Heaney got his first haircut, "Senior Infants" looks back at primary school.

LONDON -- Seamus Heaney, the Nobel Prize-winning poet ... Out,” “Station Island,” “The Spirit Level,” “District and Circle” and a lyrical translation of the epic poem “Beowulf.” ...

For Atlantic writer Caitlin Flanagan — who grew up in a family of Berkeley, California, academics — that includes her unlikely life-long connection with Nobel-prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney ...

Heaney reveals how simple things, such as a thimble or a swing, can hold the weight of history-and how history can alter the emotional weight... Fluent, enjoyable and often masterful, this 11th ...

By contrast, celebrity status for the Irish poet Seamus Heaney – “Famous Seamus” – came early in his life. The eldest of nine children raised on a small farm called Mossbawn in County ...

Seamus Heaney (born 1939 ... which is republished alongside his new collection (his twelfth), District and Circle. The sanity that Heaney's poetry commends and embodies is derived in large ...