Heaney's Islands: Landscape, Memory and Imagination

Heaney's Islands: Landscape, Memory and Imagination

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'We are bombarded by the empty air.'
Structured around three themes, we will consider Heaney's engagement with Ireland's offshore islands, the 'islands' of the landscape found in his bog poems, and the islands of the mind that emerge in his later, more reflective work.

Moving between poetry, place, and cultural memory, Lesley Bond offers a way of tracing how islands function throughout Heaney's writing as spaces of attention, transformation, and creative renewal.

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Poetry

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