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The Haw Lantern

First edition of Seamus Heaney's The Haw Lantern

Seamus HeaneySeamus Justin Heaney, 1939–2013

First edition. Crown 8vo. Pp. [xii], 51, [1 (blank)]. Brick-red cloth boards, lettered in silver to spine. Priced £7.95 net to the front flap of dust jacket.
Tanning to page edges, as usual, else fine in a fine dust jacket.
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
[Brandes & Durkan A41a]
edition
first edition
format
hardback
publisher
Faber and Faber
published in
London
publication year
1987
ISBN
0571147801
height × width
20.5 × 13.5 cm
genre
poetry
language
English
binding style
cloth
binding state
original binding
condition  . . .
fine
of jacket
fine
GBP£ ​135
EUR€ ​163
USD$ ​173
ref.2H7 7R2