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Sat 08 Aug 2010Seamus Heaney's book of resurrections
POETRY: EAMON GRENNANreviews Human ChainBy Seamus Heaney, Faber and Faber, 85pp, £12.99
What has emerged from this steady procession of individual volumes is an unforced pattern of continuous significance, leading here to a collection that, in its depth charges of emotional memory, in its habitual amplifications along cultural lines, as well as in its revisitings and revisionings of sites mapped in earlier collections, may be regarded as marking a new departure. In this assembling of poems mostly written since District and Circlethe poet touches strings on which he’s played before, finding in them fresh melodies, renewed insights, refreshed understanding.
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