#ReadIreland 2020 Station Island (67 poems)

• Author: Seamus Heaney
  
• Title: Station Island
  
• Published: 1984
• Dedicated to:  Irish playwright Brian Friel
• List of Challenges 2020
• Monthly plan
• #ReadingIrelandMonth20
• #Begorrathon20

 

Conclusion:

1. Station Island is an intensebook of 67 poems
2. …each one worth you reading time.
3. The poems left me breathless.
4. It took me 2 days to read 123 pages!!
5. Reading Seamus Heaney’s poetry is only
6. known by experience…rather than reason.
7. Favorite poem: Station Island nr XII
8. Seamus meets his last guide on the pilgrimage
9. …James. Joyce.
10. Joyce’s advice is timeless
11. …not only meant for Heaney…but for us all:
12. “Let go, let fly. forget.
    You’ve listened long enough.
    Now strike your note.”
13. Joyce urges the complete opposite of the
14. collective Catholic pilgrimage (Station Island)
15. …but favors individualism!
16. In other words
17. ….shed your Catholic orthodoxy and reveal a new self.
18. #ChapeauAuBas
19. ….Seamus Heaney!
20. #MustRead