SEAMUS HEANEY - Station Island (1984-1st) Ireland, Irish Poetry Collection - HB

Station Island Seamus Heaney \nPublished by Faber and Faber, London, 1984. First UK Edition. Bound in the original publisher's hardcover boards, titled in gilt to the spine. Spine ends with minor bumping, binding otherwise in good order. Internally the block is sound, the pages have some light age toning, previous owner's inscription to the half title, but generally clean and tight. Jacket unclipped with minor wear to the edges. \nThe title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded by a section of shorter lyrics and leads into a third group of poems in which the poet's voice is at one with the voice of the legendary mad King Sweeney.\n 'Surpasses even what one might reasonably expect from this magnificently gifted poet.' John Carey, Sunday Times. Vg overall. \y