According to one work in this collection, "The house would stink long after" the titular occasion, "acrid as a sulfur mine." In addition to "Churning Day," the collection features a poem about a "hitherto snubbed rodent" and another concerning a food shortage on a ship, "For the Commander of the Eliza."  The poet speaks of his childhood affinity for wells in the final poem, which ends with the declaration, "I rhyme/To see myself, to set the darkn
According to one work in this collection, "The house would stink long after" the titular occasion, "acrid as a sulfur mine." In addition to "Churning Day," the collection features a poem about a "hitherto snubbed rodent" and another concerning a food shortage on a ship, "For the Commander of the Eliza."  The poet speaks of his childhood affinity for wells in the final poem, which ends with the declaration, "I rhyme/To see myself, to set the darkness echoing."  The image of a coffin as "A four foot box, a foot for every year" dominates a poem about the death of the poet's younger brother, "Mid-Term Break.  "The squat pen rests; as snug as a gun" in the hand of the opening poem's speaker, and the title poem of the collection concerns a boy fascinated by frogspawn near the flax-dam.  Containing the poem "Digging," this is, for 10 points, what early poetry collection by Seamus Heaney?
According to one work in this collection, "The house would stink long after" the titular occasion, "acrid as a sulfur mine."
Death of a Naturalist