District and Circle

Seamus Heaney · 2006 CE · Poem · English · Contemporary

Sonnets set on the London Underground in the months after the 2005 bombings sit beside poems of turnip-snedders in a field and the Tollund Man seen again. The district and the circle of the title are a Tube line and the poet's own rounds of memory. A late collection by the Nobel poet, awarded the Eliot Prize.

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