STATION ISLAND

Heaney, Seamus

ISBN 10: 0374269785 / ISBN 13: 9780374269784

Published by Farrar Straus Giroux, NY, 1985

About this Item

First US edition, first prnt. Signed and dated "1.2.87" by Heaney on the title page. Slightest rub in the cloth spine ends; otherwise, in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Heaney's sixth collection of poems. Seller Inventory # 121465

Bibliographic Details

Title: STATION ISLAND

Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux, NY

Publication Date: 1985

Binding: Hardcovers

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

Poems deal with a pilgrim's spiritual journey, the story of an ancient Irish king, and children, nature, change, travel, mortality, and religion

About the Author:

Seamus Heaney was born in County Derry in Northern Ireland. Death of a Naturalist, his first collection of poems, appeared in 1966, and was followed by poetry, criticism and translations which established him as the leading poet of his generation. In 1995 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, and twice won the Whitbread Book of the Year, for The Spirit Level (1996) and Beowulf (1999). Stepping Stones, a book of interviews conducted by Dennis O'Driscoll, appeared in 2008; Human Chain, his last volume of poems, was awarded the 2010 Forward Prize for Best Collection. He died in 2013. His translation of Virgil's Aeneid Book VI was published posthumously in 2016 to critical acclaim.