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precise quality of their lyricism’ (Sasha Dugdale)

where she mostly lives now

But this book is also rare in reflecting the concerns of readers from all walks of life

Human Chain by Seamus Heaney Adnan al Sayegh in the extraordinary: tales ofSeamus Heaney's new collection elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now, inside an intently remembered present the stepping stones of the day, the weight and heft of what is passed from hand to hand, lifted and lowered. Human Chain also broaches larger questions of transmission, as lifelines to the inherited past. There are newly minted versions of anonymous early Irish lyrics, poems which stand