heene is someone he's got a real earthiness he's got a real Vivid salty gritty feed density to his language reading his poems feels like holding freshly earthed potatoes or sinking your toes into the mud or feeling the salt wind you know burn your eyes on a on a cloudy day standing on a cliff overlooking the sea
Field work (1979)
Collection centers on a sonnet sequence set in Glanmore, where the poet lived for four years after having left the turbulence of Belfast in 1972. Also includes love poems and elegies--in memory of Francis Ledwidge, Robert Lowell, and Sean O'Riada, among others--as well as a translation of 'Cantos XXXII' and XXXIII' from Dante's 'Inferno'."--Front flap, dust jacket
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