Seamus Heaney and the Adequacy of Poetry is the first full study of the development Heaney's prose poetics and their central theme, the adequacy of poetry, as a force for good in the face of history's violence. Dennisons book will no doubt prove invaluable to the scholarly study of Heaney, offering nuance and context to his growth as a writer and reifying the importance of the prose works to our concept of Heaney as a towering literary figure.