 Cover of British hardback edition | |
| Author | Seamus Heaney |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Poetry Collection |
| Publisher | Faber and Faber (UK) Farrar, Straus and Giroux (U.S.) |
Publication date | 1 April 2006 (1st edition) |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 76 |
| ISBN | 0-571-23096-2 (UK hardback) ISBN 0-374-53081-5 (U.S. hardback) ISBN 0-571-23097-0 (UK paperback) ISBN 0-374-53081-5 (U.S. paperback) |
| OCLC | 62891650 |
| Preceded by | Electric Light |
| Followed by | Human Chain |
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]
Reporting on the Eliot Prize, the BBC commented in 2007, "The award is yet more confirmation, as if it was needed, of Heaney's reputation as, arguably, the English language's greatest living bard, whom author Malcolm Bradbury once described as 'the poet of poets'." In 2013, Heaney's volumes made up two-thirds of the sales of living poets in Britain.[4]
The poet dedicated District and Circle[note 2] to the Canadian professor of Irish Studies Ann Saddlemyer.[5] Heaney has been recorded reading this collection on the Seamus Heaney Collected Poems album.
- ^ "Seamus Heaney". Poems and Poets. Poetry Foundation. Archived from the original on 3 September 2011. Retrieved 18 May 2013.
- ^ "More about the Prize". Poetry Book Society. Archived from the original on 4 April 2013. Retrieved 11 May 2013.
- ^ Heaney wins 'Irish Times' poetry award Archived 23 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine Irish Times, 2011-03-26. (subscription required)
- ^ a b "Seamus Heaney". Faces of the week. BBC News. 19 January 2007. Archived from the original on 5 October 2020. Retrieved 18 May 2013.
- ^ O'Donoghue, Bernard (2012). The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney (Cambridge Companions to Literature). Cambridge University Press. p. 120 (footnote 23). ISBN 9780521838825.
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