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DISTRICT AND CIRCLE
by HEANEY, Seamus:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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York, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Faber and Faber. 2006. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Original green paper-covered boards lettered in gilt to the spine, in the Pentagram designed dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean and bright throughout. Complete with the fine dustwrapper. Not price-clipped (£12.99 net to the front flap). A lovely copy. Signed by Seamus Heaney in black ink to the title page. 'District and Circle' was winner of the 2006 T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry. "Due in large part to the richness of his language, and also to the undiminished freshness of his response to time-honoured things, its consolidations have the feel of celebrations. The book does not merely dig in, but digs deep" (Andrew Motion, in 'The Observer'). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Synopsis
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.
Reviews
On Apr 7 2019, The Old Library Bookshop said:
How many stars does one humble reader give to a book of poetry written by a poet who was awarded a Nobel Prize for Literature? Who am I to judge such a shining light? Of course, Heaney's poetry is marvelous. It's just a bit too earthy and masculine to touch me in the same way as that of, say, another Irish poet, Eavan Boland. A cursory reading isn't quite enough to judge the merits of the poetry, but nor was it enough to whet my appetite for more any time soon.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lucius Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24335
- Title
- DISTRICT AND CIRCLE
- Author
- HEANEY, Seamus:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First edition, first printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Faber and Faber. 2006
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- Spine
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