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The power of this book comes from a sense that he is reaching out towards a type of desolation and of isolation without which no imagination can be seen to have grown up.'  Eavan Boland, Irish Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Keyed and pitched unlike any other significant poet at work in the language anywhere.'  Harold Bloom, Times Literary Supplement","brand":"Heaney, Seamus","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":44301173883170,"sku":"9780571101580","price":16.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/products\/heaney-seamus-wintering-out-p-b-9780571101580-40329913631010.jpg?v=1673552145"},{"product_id":"seeing-things-pb","title":"Seamus Heaney: SEEING THINGS [1991] paperback","description":"This collection of Seamus Heaney's work, especially in the vivid and surprising twelve-line poems entitled \"Squarings\", shows he is ready to re-imagine experience and \"to credit marvels\". 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