HEANEY, Seamus. District and Circle.

HEANEY, Seamus. District and Circle. London: Faber and Faber, 2006.

8vo., green boards with lettering in gilt to spine; unclipped Faber-style typographic dust wrapper (£12.99); yellow endpapers; pp. [x], 76, [x]; fine, with 'signed' Foyles sticker.

First edition (full number line 1-10) of Heaney's diverse collection of poetry, including prose, quatrains, and free verse portraying homages to everyday objects, elegies to other poets, and recollections from the Nobel Laureate's childhood in rural Ireland. This copy signed by the poet in black ink to the title page.

This collection is widely praised for its accessibility, lyricism, and the depth of its reflections on the human condition. It's a collection that invites readers to explore the intersections of the personal and the public, the past and the present, and the individual and the collective.

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