signed first edition Softcover
1968 · [Belfast]
by HEANEY, Seamus, Michael Longley, David Hammond
[Belfast]: Arts Council of Northern Ireland, 1968. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Square octavo. [32]pp. Stapled red pictorial wrappers printed in black. Illustrated with photographic reproductions of the contributors. Small stain inside front cover else a just about fine copy. Housed in a custom green cloth clamshell case titled in gilt. Signed by Seamus Heaney, Longley, and on the photographic frontispiece. The poets each contribute nine poems and Hammond contributes nine songs. Heaney contributes three poems that are first appearances and not previously collected elsewhere: "Requiem for the Croppies," Elegy for a Still-Born Child," and "Last Look." (truncated)