Cover art for Human Chain
Published
Faber Poetry, June 2011
ISBN
9780571269242
Format
Softcover, 96 pages
Dimensions
19.8cm × 12.9cm × 0.8cm

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Seamus Heaney's new collection elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now, inside an intently remembered present - the stepping stones of the day, the weight and heft of what is passed from hand to hand, lifted and lowered. Human Chain also broaches larger questions of transmission, as lifelines to the inherited past.

Human Chain is Seamus Heaney's twelfth collection of poems.

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