The School Bag

Limited first edition. Thick 8vo. Pp. xvii, [1], 590. Quarter-bound navy blue cloth over yellow paper boards, stamped in gilt on a black panel to spine. Complete with publisher's acetate dust jacket and matching slip case. With a foreword by Heaney and an afterword by Hughes. 1/300 numbered copies, signed by the editors on a bound-in limitation page to rear.

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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