Electric Light travels widely in time and space, visiting the sites
of the classical world, revisiting the poet's childhood: rural
electrification and the light of ancient evenings are reconciled
within the orbit of a single lifetime. This is a book about origins
(not least the origins of words) and oracles: the places where
things start from, the ground of understanding - whether in Arcadia
or Anahorish, the sanctuary at Epidaurus or the Bann valley in
County Derry. Electric Light ranges from short takes ('glosses') to
conversation poems whose cunning passagework gives rein to 'the
must and drift of talk'; other poems are arranged in sections,
their separate cargoes docked alongside each other to reveal a
hidden and curative connection. The presocratic wisdom that
everything flows is held in tension with the fixities of
remembrance: elegising friends and fellow poets, naming 'the real
names' of contemporaries behind the Shakespearean roles they played
at school. These gifts of recollection renew the poet's calling to
assign to things their proper names. The resulting poems are full
of delicately prescriptive tonalities, where Heaney can be heard
extending his word-hoard and rollcall in this, his eleventh
collection.
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