Description

First Edition, SPECIALLY INSCRIBED, SIGNED, AND DATED BY SEAMUS HEANEY. 8vo, publisher’s original brown cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, in the original dustjacket. 66 pp. A very fine copy, the book and jacket both beautifully preserved, as pristine.

Edizione: the first ediiton specially inscribed by seamus heaney and a masterful collection. field work was heaney's first collection of poetry to follow his much celebrated collection north in 1975. it can be seen as a record of his years living in rural county wicklow in the republic of ireland after leaving the violence of 'the troubles'. the collection contains some of his best-loved poems, such as ‘oysters’, ‘casualty’, ‘the skunk’, and the defining sequence ‘glanmore sonnets’. it has been cited by many – including the poet’s wife, marie – as their favorite volume.