District and Circle
District and Circle is a poetry collection by Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. It was published in 2006 and won the 2006 T. S. Eliot Prize, the most prestigious poetry award in the UK. The collection also won the Irish Times "Poetry Now Award".
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| Author | Seamus Heaney |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Poetry Collection |
| Publisher | Faber and Faber (UK) Farrar, Straus and Giroux (U.S.) |
Publication date | 1 April 2006 (1st edition) |
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| Pages | 76 |
| ISBN | 0-571-23096-2 (UK hardback) ISBN 0-374-53081-5 (U.S. hardback) ISBN 0-571-23097-0 (UK paperback) ISBN 0-374-53081-5 (U.S. paperback) |
| OCLC | 62891650 |
| Preceded by | Electric Light |
| Followed by | Human Chain |
Reporting on the Eliot Prize, the BBC commented in 2007, "The award is yet more confirmation, as if it was needed, of Heaney's reputation as, arguably, the English language's greatest living bard, whom author Malcolm Bradbury once described as 'the poet of poets'." In 2013, Heaney's volumes made up two-thirds of the sales of living poets in Britain.
The poet dedicated District and Circle to the Canadian professor of Irish Studies Ann Saddlemyer. Heaney has been recorded reading this collection on the Seamus Heaney Collected Poems album.