'The extraordinary is implicated in the ordinary – and vice versa … Heaney's new book, his twelfth, keeps to a similar pattern. Due in large part to the richness of his language, and also to the undiminished freshness of his response to time-honoured things, its consolidations have the feel of celebrations. The book does not merely dig in, but digs deep.' Andrew Motion, Guardian
'A volume of incontestable weight and majesty, arguably unsurpassed, in universal relevance, by any of its predecessors. Voraciousness, artistic and intellectual, has always been a prime characteristic of Heaney the Maestro; here, one senses especially a voracious alertness to the post-9/11 world, a global weather-eye leaving its trace elements across the snail-track of the poems. One reading of the title, then, might be the interplay of continuity and evolution.' Irish Times
'This is one of those remarkable books of poetry which demonstrates, with particular suddenness and clarity, what poems of the finest quality are really good for. They re-energise the language, and by doing so, they serve to quicken the reader's soul.' Economist
'While at first sight District and Circle is a compendium of many of Heaney's singular preoccupations, this collection aims, not so much at a consolidation of a great artist's vision, but at a further enrichment, via further interrogation, of that artist's sense of his own source, and of his tradition.' John Burnside, The Scotsman
'Heaney's perspective is reverential, otherworldly, and affirmative… With every collection, his tone deepens, and here it has reached a sometimes sublime state of mellow, mulled insight, in which nothing harsh or casual intrudes on the sense of a master sculpting images as if breathing life into clay … the intimacy of Heaney's vision, his insistence on openness, his effortless sensuality, give these poems the directness and impact of personal letters to the reader.' Kathleen Morgan, The Herald (Scotland)
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