The Haw Lantern

First paperback edition. 8vo. Pp. [x], 51. Stiff card wraps with cover illustration by Carol Wilhide. Published simultaneously with the casebound issue.

Toning to textblock throughout, as usual, else Fine.

Author's eighth poetry collection. Winner of the 1987 Whitbread Prize for Poetry. Thirty-one poems exploring the theme of loss – including a celebrated sonnet sequence concerning the death of the poet's mother – joined by meditations on the conscience of the writer and exercises in an allegorical vein. Awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. "Intimate, tender, erotic. Mr Heaney is a poet of exclusion; he knows just what to leave out in order to let the reader in." –Mark Rudman, The New York Times Book Review

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