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Poems deal with a pilgrim's spiritual journey, the story of an ancient Irish king, and children, nature, change, travel, mortality, and religion
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The title poem of this collection, set on an Irish island, tells of a pilgrim on an inner journey that leads him back into the world that formed him, and then forward to face the crises of the present. Writing inThe Washington Post Book World, Hugh Kenner called the narrative sequence in Seamus Heaney'sStation Island "as fine a long poem as we've had in fifty years."
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