Field Work

Heaney, Seamus

Published by Faber, London, 1979

About this Item

First UK Edition. This is the First Paperbound Edition. SIGNED COPY. 8vo, pp. 64. Publisher's original printed card wrappers. ISBN: 0 571 11433 4. A VG+ copy. Spine faded to dark-green. Minor rubbing to the spine edges No reading crease to the spine. No former owner names. The last page of the book is browned (caused by an old newspaper review by Peter Porter laid in). Quite a nice copy. Signed by the Author in black ink to the 1/2 title. Quite uncommon, Signed. "Field Work is the record of four years during which Seamus Heaney left the violence of Belfast to settle in a country cottage with his family in Glanmore, County Wicklow. Heeding "an early warning system to get back inside my own head," Heaney wrote poems with a new strength and maturity, moving from the political concerns of his landmark volume North to a more personal, contemplative approach to the world and to his own writing. In Field Work he "brings a meditative music to bear upon fundamental themes of person and place, the mutuality of ourselves and the world" (Denis Donoghue, The New York Times). Photographs/scans available upon request. Seller Inventory # 355490723760

Bibliographic Details

Title: Field Work

Publisher: Faber, London

Publication Date: 1979

Signed: Signed by Author

Edition: First Edition.