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"History says, Don‘t hope On this side of the grave. But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up And hope and history rhyme."

#poetry #Seamus_Heaney

This collection had me wondering just that. There were several poems that puzzled me, and others that made the kind of resonating, innate sense that prose never seems to do. Filled with acute observation, memory, imagination, and a definite sense of place, Healey‘s poetry is about his relationship with the world. As such I suppose the reader‘s relationship to it will always be that of an outsider. A bit lost, but enjoying the view.

This place is ridiculously beautiful on a day like today.

I had intended to read on the train, but who could with this scenery?

#NorthernIreland