Seamus Heaney Wins 2006 T.S. Eliot Prize

Date: January 16, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments

Seamus Heaney has won the ₤10,000 T.S. Eliot Prize for his 2006 collection of poetry titled District and Circle. The collection is the Nobel Prize winner’s 12th book of poetry.

The T.S. Eliot Prize, organized in 1993, is given annually to the best collection of new verse published the UK or Ireland.


'District and Circle' book coverDistrict and Circle
by Seamus Heaney

Seamus 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. …

You can read more about District and Circle at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk




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