District and Circle is Seamus Heaney’s twelfth collection since Death of a Naturalist (1966), published in April 2006 by Faber and Faber. There are 44 titles including 5 sequences of more than one poem; 68 poems in all. Many had already appeared in some form or other in a variety of publications on both sides of the Atlantic.The volume includes some ‘found prose’ and a number of translations.
- Foreword
- The Turnip Snedder
- A Shiver
- Home Help
- Helmet
- Polish Sleepers
- Anahorish 1944
- To Mick Joyce in Heaven
- The Aerodrome
- Anything Can Happen
- Rilke: After the Fire
- Out of Shot
- To George Seferis in the Underworld
- District and Circle
- Wordsworth’s Skates
- The Harrow-Pin
- Poet to Blacksmith
- Midnight Anvil
- Súgán
- Senior Infants
- The Nod
- The Clip
- Edward Thomas on the Lagans Road
- Found Prose
- The Lift
- Nonce Words
- Stern
- Out of This World
- In Iowa
- Hōfn
- On the Spot
- The Tollund Man in Springtime
- Moyulla
- Planting the alder
- Tate’s Avenue
- A Hagging Match
- Fiddleheads
- To Pablo Neruda in Tamlaghtduff
- Rilke: The Apple Orchard
- Quitting Time
- Home Fires
- The Birch Grove
- Cavafy: ‘The rest I’ll speak of to the ones below in Hades’
- In a Loaning
- The Blackbird of Glanmore
- Afterthoughts