at a last meal with the Heaneys, saying that: "He could bear no longer to watch/The sun going down/And asking please to be put/With his back to the window". And a starkly haunting poem in memory of singer and racounteur David Hammond finds in his friend's death "a not unwelcoming/Emptiness, as in a midnight hangar/On an overgrown airfield in late summer". That's a lovely, if essentially desolating, image and there are others just as fine, though in general the lyrical wattage is lower here than in early Heaney or even than in such later volumes as Electric Light or The Spirit Level.
from Irish Independent: Review: Human Chain by Seamus Heaney
then The Herald: Seamus Heaney: Human Chain (Faber, £12.99)
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