Stations (poetry collection)

Stations

First edition

Author| Seamus Heaney
Country| United Kingdom
Language| English
Publisher| Ulsterman Publications

Publication date

| 1975
Media type| Print
Pages| 24 pp
ISBN| 0-903048-04-3

Stations is a collection of prose poems by Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. It was published in 1975.[1][2]

This particular collection presents a style of writing which was then new to Heaney, known as "verse paragraphs" or prose poems. He believed this style of poetry was his own invention,[citation needed] but halfway through writing the collection, while teaching in an American university in 1971, English poet, Geoffrey Hill published a collection of poetry called "Mercian Hymns", which were presented in this style of "prose poems".[1]

In Heaney's own words "What I had regarded as stolen marches in a form new to me, had been headed off by a work of complete authority".[1]

However, upon his return to Ireland, Heaney completed and published Stations in 1975. It includes 21 poems.[1] Among the collection are poems such as "Nesting Grounds", "England's Difficulty" and "Cloistered," which return to Heaney's childhood, although the difference between these and earlier poems being that while previously they were written with a child's eye view, now many of these poems were written from an adult's perspective of their childhood self, particularly "Nesting Ground," which shows a more cautious side to Heaney's childhood.[citation needed]

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b c d Floyd Collins (2003). Seamus Heaney: The Crisis of Identity. University of Delaware Press. pp. 76, 78. ISBN 978-0-87413-805-4.
2. ^ Christopher Laverty (2020). Heaney and American Poetry: The California Narrative. Estudios Irlandeses: Journal of Irish Studies 15: 73-86 doi:10.24162/EI2020-9323

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Works by Seamus Heaney

Poetry|

* Death of a Naturalist
* Door into the Dark
* Wintering Out
* Stations
* North
* Field Work
* Station Island
* The Haw Lantern
* Seeing Things
* The Spirit Level
* Electric Light
* District and Circle
* Human Chain

| Selections|

* Selected Poems 1965–1975
* New Selected Poems 1966–1987
* Opened Ground: Poems 1966–1996

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Plays|

* The Cure at Troy
* The Burial at Thebes

Essays|

| Selections|

* Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971–2001

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Translations|

* Sweeney Astray: A version from the Irish
* Laments
* Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
* The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables

Recordings|

* The Poet and The Piper
* Collected Poems

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