66 pages. Softcover. Reading copy. POETRY. At the center of this collection

66 pages. Softcover. Reading copy. POETRY. At the center of this collection is a sonnet sequence set in Glanmore, where Seamus Heaney for four years after having left the turbulence of Belfast in 1972. Themes apparent elsewhere in the book are concentrated in these poems: the individual's responsibility for his own choices, the artist's commitment to his vocation, the vulnerability of all in the face of circumstance and death. There are also groups of love poems and elegies-in memory of Francis Ledwidge, Robert Lowell, and Sean O'Riada, among others-as well as a powerful translation of Cantos XXXII and XXXIII from Dante's Inferno. (Key Words: Seamus Heaney, Nobel Prize Winners, Poetry, Francis Ledwidge, Robert Lowell, Sean O'Riada, Dante, Inferno, Sonnets, Glanmore, Irish Poets, Love Poems, Elegies).