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Seamus Heaney’s twelfth collection reflects on memory and loss and on the transformative power of poetry to elicit continuities and solidarities, between tradition and the present, husband and wife, child and parent, then and now. A remarkable sequence entitled 'Route 110' plots the descent into the underworld in the Aeneid against single moments in the arc of a life, from a 1950s adolescence to the birth of the poet’s first grandchild. Other poems display a Virgilian pietas for the dead - friends, neighbours, family - which is yet wholly and movingly vernacular.
Faber & Faber 2010
Translated into: Spanish, Hungarian
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