For our first session of the new season of the Poetry Room, on 1st September, we will be looking at Seamus Heaney’s District and Circle ????? ?????? ????????? . One of our most important poets, Heaney hardly needs any introduction. As the title suggests, his latest collection (Faber 2006), spends a lot of time underground. These are poems that converse with many of Heaney’s contemporaries, who have already taken that last ferry into the underworld. He imagines the darkness on the other side and illuminates it with flashes of memory from his childhood in rural Derry and the insights of a settled old age.
Some of the poems we’ll be reading include:
The Turnip-Snedder
District and Circle
Wordsworth’s Skates
A Clip
Stern
Planting the Alder
To Pablo Neruda in Tamlaghtduff
Cavafy: ‘The rest I’ll speak of to the ones below in Hades’
The Blackbird of Glanmore
From now on all our meetings will take place on the first Tuesday of the month. Please note our new time – 6.15pm to 8pm – at Blackwell’s Bookshop, Percy Street, on Tuesday 1st September. This session will serve as a taster for Seamus Heaney’s visit to Newcastle for a reading on Tuesday 12th October in the Banqueting Suite, Civic Centre, Newcastle. Tickets available from:
https://www.ecommercegateway.co.uk/ncl/onlinestore/
Looking forward to seeing old friends and new faces after our summer break. ???? ???????? ??????
