Station Island Av Seamus Heaney

<p>The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with ''the growth of a poet''s mind''. The long poem is preceded by a section of shorter lyrics and leads into a third group of poems in which the poet''s voice is at one with the voice of the legendary mad King Sweeney.<br><br>''Surpasses even what one might reasonably expect from this magnificently gifted poet.'' John Carey, <i>Sunday Times</i></p>