Human Chain

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 85, [3]. Publisher's maroon cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine; matching endpapers. Printed dustwrapper, priced at £12.99 to front flap.

The Irish Nobel laureate's 12th and final collection of verse. Winner of the 2010 Forward Poetry Prize, the Irish Times 2011 Poetry Now Award, and the 2011 Griffin Poetry Prize. "Heaney has achieved a hard-won clarity of vision. Here, he renders memories with crystalline precision as he distills and contemplates the accumulations of a life." –Heather Clark, Harvard Review