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The Given Note

A visual interpretation of Seamus Heaney’s poem asks where music comes from.

Julian Peters

November 16, 2023

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[.smalltext] This poetry comic is excerpted from Poems to See By . [.smalltext]

On the most westerly blasket, in a dry-stone hut

Strange noises were heard by others who followed, bits of a tune coming in on loud weather

Though nothing like melody. He blamed their fingers and ear as unpracticed, their fiddling easy

for he had gone alone into the island, and brought back the whole thing

So whether he calls it spirit music or not, I don't care. He took it

[.smalltext] “The Given Note” from Seamus Heaney, Door into the Dark (London: Faber & Faber, 1969). Used with permission. [.smalltext]

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Julian Peters

Julian Peters is an illustrator and comic book artist living in Montreal, Canada, who focuses on adapting classical poems into graphic art. His work has been exhibited internationally and published in several poetry and graphic art collections.

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