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Station Island

by Seamus Heaney · 1984

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Collection of poems by Heaney set on an island which has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. His pilgrim is on an inner journey and proceeds through a series of encounters which lead him back into the which which first formed him and then forward to face the crises of the present. The long poem is preceded by a section of meditative lyrics that leads into a group of poems in which the poet's voice is at one with the voice of the legendary Sweeney, a King of Ulster, Ireland of the Buile Suibhne Geilt

Setting
1980s1980sMore like thisLess of thisNorthern IrelandNorthern IrelandMore like thisLess of thisIrelandIrelandMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
short · 124 pages
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poetrypoetryMore like thisLess of this

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