Death of a Naturalist
A boy fills jampotfuls of frogspawn from a flax-dam and comes back one day to find the water gross-bellied and croaking with the grown frogs. Elsewhere a father digs potato drills and a grandfather cuts turf while the son who has no spade squats between the pen and the paper, and a four-foot box brings a younger brother home. Heaney's first collection, which set a County Derry farm as ground his poetry would keep returning to for fifty years.
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