These gifts of recollection renew the poet's calling to assign things their proper names once again Heaney can be heard extending his word hoard and roll call in this, his eleventh collection.

The pre-Socratic wisdom that everything flows is held in tension with the elegizing of friends and fellow poets. This is a book about origins (not least, the origins of words) and oracles: the places where things start from, the ground of understanding - whether in Arcadia or Anahorish, the sanctuary at Epidaurus or the Bann valley in County Derry.Įlectric Light ranges from short takes to conversation poems. Electric Light travels widely in time and space, visiting the sites of the classical world, revisiting the poets childhood: rural electrification and the light of ancient evenings are reconciled within the orbit of a single lifetime. Seamus Heaney's new collection travels widely in time and space, visiting the sites of the classical world and revisiting the poet's childhood: rural electrification and the light of ancient evenings are reconciled within the orbit of a single lifetime. In the everything flows and steady go of the world. Electric Light by Seamus Heaney Condition Used - Near Fine Jacket Condition Near Fine Edition First Edition, First Printing Published 2001 Binding Hardcover ISBN 10 0571207626 Quantity Available 1 Seller. That is water, on carpets of Bann stream, on hold In the finland of perch, the fenland of alder, on air Where negative ions in the open air Are poetry to me. Where the checkpoint used to be, Where the rebel boy was hanged in 98. A powerful new collection by the bestselling translator of Beowulf. Where the flat water Came pouring over the weir out of Lough Neagh As if it had reached an edge of the flat earth And fallen shining to the continuous Present of the Bann.

Electric light by seamus heaney