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(1997) Seamus Heaney, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Station Island, by far Seamus Heaney's longest book, is in three separate parts: an opening section of individual lyrics which take their occasions from the occurrences and the memories of the ordinary life; the central section, the title sequence itself which narrates, or dramatises, a number of encounters, in dream or in vision, with the dead; and a concluding sequence, "Sweeney Redivivus", which is, as Heaney puts it in one of his notes to the volume, "voiced for Sweeney", the seventh-century king transformed into a bird, whose story Heaney has translated from the medieval Irish poem Buile Suibhne as Sweeney Astray.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-10682-0_9
Full citation:
Corcoran, N. (1997)., Writing a bare wire: station island, in M. B. Allen (ed.), Seamus Heaney, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 107-128.
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