Heaney Revisted 'District & Circle'

Seamus Heaney’s, 1996 T.S. Elliot Award winning collection, District and Circle, marks the first full-length publication after his 1995 Nobel Prize win. In the words of Faber and Faber, it has become one of Heaney’s “most celebrated collections…reaffirming his ability to write some of the most serious and the most tender poetry of which the English language is capable.”

On this online 8 week course, poet and playwright, Nathaniel Joseph McAuley, will guide students through Heaney’s masterpiece, facilitating close analysis of key poems and their contextual significance

Nathaniel Joseph McAuley is a poet and playwright from Belfast, living and working in London. He was the winner of the ACNI’s ACES Award in 2014 and currently teaches at the London Screen Academy and the Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith. His work has been published in the Irish Pages and Poetry Proper.