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District and Circle is a poetry collection by Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. It was published in 2006 and won the 2006 T. S. Eliot Prize, the most prestigious poetry award in the UK. [1] [2] The collection also won the Irish Times "Poetry Now Award". [note 1]
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The book is a collection of Seamus Heaney's poems published between 1966 and 1996. It includes poems from Death of a Naturalist (1966), Door into the Dark (1969), Wintering Out (1972), Stations (1975), North (1975), Field Work (1979), Station Island (1984), The Haw Lantern (1987), Seeing Things (1991), and The Spirit Level (1996).
Station Island is the sixth collection of original poetry written by Irish poet Seamus Heaney, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. It is dedicated to the Northern Irish playwright Brian Friel.
In the preface, Heaney states his editor, Paul Keegan, encouraged him to create the book. Numerous essays in the book were previously published in earlier collections, namely 1980 Preoccupations, [2] 1988 The Government of the Tongue, 1995 The Redress of Poetry, and the 1989 collection of "Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature" given in Emory University titled The Place of Writing.
In November 2019, the documentary Seamus Heaney and the music of what happens was aired on BBC Two. His wife Marie and his children talked about their family life and read some of the poems he wrote for them. For the first time, Heaney's four brothers remembered their childhood and the shared experiences that inspired many of his poems. [121]
Heaney had previously been living in Belfast as a professor at Queen's University. Denis O’Donoghue has referred to this period as "years of retreat only in the religious or monastic sense, a quiet time for thinking and renewal. Certain themes were sequestered, so that Heaney might start out again from first principles and deep affiliations."
Stations is a collection of prose poems by Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.It was published in 1975. [1] [2]This particular collection presents a style of writing which was then new to Heaney, known as "verse paragraphs" or prose poems.