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Summary: From the Publisher: A selection of the best of three decades of writing about poetry, a celebration of the "tenacious curiosity" (Los Angeles Times) of the Nobel laureate. Whether autobiographical, topical, or specifically literary, these writings circle the central preoccupying questions of Seamus Heaney's career: "How should a poet properly live and write? What is his relationship to his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 828.914 HEAKennelly, Brendan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloodaxe 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.914 KENJohnston, Dillon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Notre Dame Press 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.8 JOHHeaney, Seamus.
Summary: In this collection, as ever with Heaney, personal memory and humble domestic objects -- a whitewash brush, a sofa, a swing -- are endowed with talismanic significance, and throughout the collection he addresses his growing concerns, which inevitably include the political situation in his native Northern Ireland, in a poetry that never ceases to be fluid, alert, and completely truthful.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.914 HEAHeaney, Seamus
Summary: Heaney's new collection elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now, inside an intently remembered present--the stepping stones of the day, the weight and heft of what is passed from hand to hand, lifted and lowered.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.914 HEAMuldoon, Paul
Summary: Though Frolic and Detour is Paul Muldoon's thirteenth collection, it shows all the energy and ambition we might generally associate with a first book. Here, the poet brings his characteristic humor and humanity to the chickadee, the house wren, the deaths of Leonard Cohen and C. K. Williams, the Irish Rising, the Great War, and how "a streak of ragwort / may yet shine / as an off-the-record /...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821 MULMuldoon, Paul
Summary: "The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet delivers a sharp wake-up call with his fourteenth collection of poetry"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821 MULSummary: You’ll find thoughtful, surprising and powerful poems here. Poems about love and skateboarding, about feeling lonely and making friends, about jellyfish, magic, school, snowdrops, monsters, blackbirds… and lots, lots more. Chosen with love by the acclaimed children’s poet Lucinda Jacob and award-winning children’s writer and bookseller Sarah Webb.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Island Books 2023