District and Circle
Encyclopedia
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
. The collection also won the Irish Times Poetry Now Award (Heaney won the latter award again in 2011 for his collection, Human Chain
).
District
and Circle are both lines on the London Underground
. The poet dedicated this work to the death of his four year old brother.
Heaney has been recorded reading this collection on the Seamus Heaney Collected Poems
album.
Irish people
The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...
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 was published in 2006 forty years after his debut, Death of a Naturalist
Death of a Naturalist
Death of a Naturalist is a collection of poems written by Irish Nobel winner Seamus Heaney. The collection was Heaney's second major published volume, and includes ideas which he had presented at meetings of The Belfast Group...
, and was awarded the 2006 T. S. Eliot Prize
T. S. Eliot Prize
The T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry is awarded by the Poetry Book Society to "the best collection of new verse in English first published in the UK or the Republic of Ireland" in any particular year. The Prize was inaugurated in 1993 in celebration of the Poetry Book Society's 40th birthday and in...
. The collection also won the Irish Times Poetry Now Award (Heaney won the latter award again in 2011 for his collection, Human Chain
Human Chain (poetry)
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...
).
District
District Line
The District line is a line of the London Underground, coloured green on the Tube map. It is a "sub-surface" line, running through the central area in shallow cut-and-cover tunnels. It is the busiest of the sub-surface lines. Out of the 60 stations served, 25 are underground...
and Circle are both lines on the London Underground
London Underground
The London Underground is a rapid transit system serving a large part of Greater London and some parts of Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex in England...
. The poet dedicated this work to the death of his four year old brother.
Heaney has been recorded reading this collection on the Seamus Heaney Collected Poems
Seamus Heaney Collected Poems
Collected Poems is a spoken-word recording of the Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney reading his own work. It was released by RTÉ to mark his 70th birthday, which occurred on April 17th, 2009. The fifteen CD boxed set spans 556 tracks in over twelve hours of oral performance by the poet...
album.