District and Circle is a poetry collection by Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.

[4] The poet dedicated District and Circle[note 2] to the Canadian professor of Irish Studies Ann Saddlemyer.

[7] In the Observer Review Andrew Motion wrote, "Due in large part to the richness of his language, and also to the undiminished freshness of his response to time-honoured things, its consolidations have the feel of celebrations.

[10] The critic Peter McDonald said "The book contains marvellous prose-poems on the peopled landscapes of his schooldays, along with sonnets - seemingly effortless in their sheer fluency, but memorably tough and intent".

[11] Stephen Knight wrote that District and Circle was not "as immediate as his earlier work," but he still considered the book to be successful on its own terms, characterizing it as "a late flowering.