Field Work. London: Faber & Faber, 1979. First Edition. Pp, 64. Ownership ink stamp to half-title, with portrait photograph of Heaney pasted to front free endpaper. A nice copy in pictorial dust jacket with very light fading to spine.

Signed by Seamus Heaney on the title page.

Field Work is the fifth collection of poetry by Seamus Heaney.

In a review for The New York Times, it was described as “a superb book, the most eloquent and far-reaching book he has written, a perennial poetry offered at a time when many of us have despaired of seeing such a thing.”