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Haw Lantern

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4 out of 5
Based on 517 Ratings and 77 Reviews

Book Description
Seamus Heaney describes the haw lantern as "small light for small people" but there is more than tiny illumination emanating from one of Ireland's premier poets. Heaney peppers this short collection of poems with crafty language and natural objects: "I heard the hatchet's differentiated/Accurate cut, the crack, the sigh/And collapse of what luxuriated/Through the shocked tips and wreckage of it al... More
Book Information
PublisherFaber & Faber Children's Books
BindingPaperback (10 editions)
Reading LevelUncategorized
# of Pages51
ISBN-10057114781X
ISBN-13978-0571147816
Publication Date06/22/1987
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About Seamus Heaney (Author) : Seamus Heaney is a published author, editor, and a translator of young adult books. Some of the published credits of Seamus Heaney include Rattle Bag: An Anthology of Poetry, Station Island, Field Wor... more
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