District and Circle
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| District and Circle | |
 Cover of British hardback edition |
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| Author | Seamus Heaney |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Poetry Collection |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber (U.K.) Farrar, Straus and Giroux (U.S.) |
| Publication date | 1 April 2006 (1st edition) |
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| Pages | 76 |
| ISBN | ISBN 0571230962 (U.K. hardback) ISBN 0374530815 (U.S. hardback) ISBN 0571230970 (U.K. paperback) ISBN 0374530815 (U.S. paperback) |
District and Circle (2006) is a collection of poems written by Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney. It is the poet's most recent volume, published forty years after his debut Death of a Naturalist, and was awarded the 2006 T. S. Eliot Prize.
District and Circle are both lines on the London underground.
Many of the themes present in this volume are recurrent from other works by Heaney, especially ideas of art and art-labor, the importance of the local, and the ever-present images of violence. However, it is precisely by revisiting past themes that we begin to understand how the speaker wants to show that much is changed; not the general subject, but the specific details of how and what we are talking about.
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