Human Chain (poetry)
Encyclopedia
Human Chain is the twelfth collection of poems written by Irish
Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney
. It won the Forward Poetry Prize
Best Collection 2010 award and the Irish Times Poetry Now Award for 2011. This was Heaney's second Irish Times Poetry Now Award, previously winning in 2007 for District and Circle
. It was also shortlisted for the 2011 Griffin Poetry Prize
.
Irish people
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Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer. He lives in Dublin. Heaney has received the Nobel Prize in Literature , the Golden Wreath of Poetry , T. S. Eliot Prize and two Whitbread prizes...
. It won the Forward Poetry Prize
Forward Poetry Prize
The Forward Poetry Prizes were created in 1991. The aim of the prizes is to extend the audience for contemporary poetry. Until the T.S. Eliot Prize remuneration was increased to £15,000 plus £1000 to each of nine runners-up, the Forward was the United Kingdom's most valuable annual poetry...
Best Collection 2010 award and the Irish Times Poetry Now Award for 2011. This was Heaney's second Irish Times Poetry Now Award, previously winning in 2007 for District and Circle
District and Circle
District and Circle is a collection of poems written by Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney. It was published in 2006 forty years after his debut, Death of a Naturalist, and was awarded the 2006 T. S. Eliot Prize...
. It was also shortlisted for the 2011 Griffin Poetry Prize
Griffin Poetry Prize
The Griffin Poetry Prize is Canada's most generous poetry award. It was founded in 2000 by businessman and philanthropist Scott Griffin. The awards go to one Canadian and one international poet who writes in the English language....
.
Poems
- "Had I not been awake"
- Album
- The Conway Stewart
- Uncoupled
- The Butts
- Chanson d'Aventure
- Miracle
- Human Chain
- A Mite-Box
- An Old Refrain
- The Wood Road
- The Baler
- Derry Derry Down
- Eelworks
- Slack
- A Herbal
- Canopy
- The Riverbank Field
- Route 110
- Death of a Painter
- Loughanure
- Wraiths
- Sweeney Out-takes
- Colum Cille Cecinit
- Hermit Songs
- "Lick the pencil"
- "The door was open and the house was dark"
- In the Attic
- A Kite for Aibhín
External links
- Human Chain by Seamus Heaney, review by Colm TóibínColm TóibínColm Tóibín is a multi-award-winning Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, journalist, critic, and, most recently, poet.Tóibín is Leonard Milberg Lecturer in Irish Letters at Princeton University in New Jersey and succeeded Martin Amis as professor of creative writing at the...
, The Guardian, 2010-08-21. Retrieved: 2010-08-23. - Human Chain by Seamus Heaney, review by Kate Kellaway, The Observer, 2010-08-22. Retrieved: 2010-08-23.
- Seamus Heaney's book of resurrections, review by Eamon Grennan, Irish Times, 2010-08-28. Retrieved: 2010-08-31.
- 'A Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man', review by Luke Smith, Oxonian Review. Retrieved: 2011-04-09.
- Seamus Heaney on NobelPrize.org