Master of memory

Human Chain

After Electric Light and District and Circle, as well as the monumental book-length interview with Dennis O’Driscoll, Stepping Stones, all published in recent years, one can only marvel that the poet still has urgent things to say.

Fifteen years after he won the Nobel Prize and a year after receiving the David Cohen Prize for Literature, Heaney presents us with another triumph from the Olympian privacy of his life.