The School Bag

First edition. Thick 8vo. Pp. xvii, [1], 590. Publisher's navy blue cloth, lined and lettered in cream-white to spine. With a foreword by Heaney and an afterword by Hughes.

Signed by Heaney to the title page.

Conceived as a schoolbook, yet very personal in both its selection and ordering, the editors' second poetry anthology is a companion volume to The Rattle Bag (1982). Heaney is the recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature, while Hughes served as Poet Laureate in England from 1984 until his death in 1998. "Exciting, surprisingly broad in its taste... pulls readers through like a novel." –Sunday Times

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