"Inner emigré" or "artful voyeur"? Seamus Heaney's north

Edna Longley

pp. 30-63

in: Michael B. Allen (ed), Seamus Heaney, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1997

Abstract

These new poems have all the sensuousness of Mr Heaney’s earlier work, but refined and cut back to the bone. They are solid, beautifully wrought, expansively resonant. They recognise tragedy and violence without despairingly allowing them to flog human utterance into fragments.2

Cited authors

Heaney Seamus