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The Haw Lantern
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By: Seamus Heaney
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: January 2014
Pages: 61
Categories: Poetry
Language: English
Available as: Hardback, Paperback, Ebook
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ISBN-13: 9781466855724

This collection of thirty-one poems is Seamus Heaney's first since Station Island. The Haw Lantern is a magnificent book that further extends the range of a poet who has always put his trust in the possibilities of the language. Seamus Heaney describes the haw lantern as "small light for small people" but there is more than tiny illumination emanating from one of Ireland's premier poets. Heaney peppers this short collection of poems with crafty language and natural objects: "I heard the hatchet's differentiated/Accurate cut, the crack, the sigh/And collapse of what luxuriated/Through the shocked tips and wreckage of it all." The Haw Lantern won England's Whitbread Prize in 1987. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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