{"product_id":"9780571279418-district-and-circle","title":"District and Circle","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIncluding a number of prose poems and translations, this book offers resistance as the poet gathers his staying powers and stands his ground in the hiding places of love and excited language.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeamus Heaney's new collection starts 'in an age of bare hands and  cast iron' and ends 'as the automatic lock \/ clunks shut' in the eerie  new conditions of a menaced twenty-first century. In their haunted,  almost visionary clarity, the poems assay the weight and worth of what  has been held in the hand and in the memory. Images out of a childhood  spent safe from the horrors of World War II - railway sleepers, a  sledgehammer, the 'heavyweight silence' of cattle out in rain - are  coloured by a strongly contemporary sense that 'anything can happen',  and other images from the dangerous present - a journey on the  underground, a melting glacier - are fraught with this same anxiety.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut District and Circle, which includes a number of  prose poems and translations, offers resistance as the poet gathers his  staying powers and stands his ground in the hiding places of love and  excited language. In a sequence like 'The Tollund Man in Springtime' and  in several poems which 'do the rounds of the district' - its known  roads and rivers and trees, its familiar and unfamiliar ghosts - the  gravity of memorial is transformed into the grace of recollection. With  more relish and conviction than ever, Seamus Heaney maintains his trust  in the obduracy of workaday realities and the mystery of everyday  renewals:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAgain the growl \/ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eOf shutting doors, the jolt and one-off treble \/ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eOf  iron on iron, then a long centrifugal \/ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eHaulage of speed through  every dragging socket.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(from 'District and Circle')\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57536560955766,"sku":"9780571279418","price":9.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_36343014.jpg?v=1774289200","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780571279418-district-and-circle","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}