{"product_id":"heaney-seamus-station-island-1","title":"HEANEY, Seamus. Station Island.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003eImagined Meetings with the Poets of the Past\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHEANEY, Seamus.\u003c\/strong\u003e Station Island. \u003ci\u003eLondon: Faber and Faber\u003c\/i\u003e. 1984.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, in the Pentagram-designed dust-jacket printed in red and black, front flap priced £5.95 net; pp. [3]–123, [1 (blank)], bound without front free endpaper, \u003ci\u003ei.e.\u003c\/i\u003e pp. 1–2 (as with all copies of the first hardback printing); small scuff to foot of upper board, a few pale dampstains to interior of jacket; else a fine copy in like dust-jacket; title-page signed by Heaney.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSigned first edition, first printing of Heaney’s first volume following \u003ci\u003eField Work\u003c\/i\u003e (1979), centred around its title sequence, described as ‘a sequence of dream encounters with familiar ghosts’ and set on the eponymous island in Lough Derg, Co. Donegal. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of Heaney’s finest achievements, the sequence stages a series of encounters with figures from the poet’s own past, alongside imagined meetings with earlier Irish writers – William Carleton, Patrick Kavanagh and, above all, James Joyce. The sequence, deeply in-debted to Dante, frequently employs the Italian poet’s signature \u003ci\u003eterza rima\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFlanking the sequence are a series of shorter lyrics and ‘Sweeney Redivivus’, where, follow-ing \u003ci\u003eSweeney Astray\u003c\/i\u003e (1983), the poet’s voice once again merges with ‘the seventh-century Ulster king who was transformed into a bird-man and exiled to the trees by the curse of St Ronan.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrandes \u0026amp; Durkan A36a.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2124805\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sotherans","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57386284253561,"sku":"2124805","price":500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2124805.jpg?v=1780650345","url":"https:\/\/sotherans.co.uk\/products\/heaney-seamus-station-island-1","provider":"Sotherans","version":"1.0","type":"link"}