The Haw Lantern. London: Faber, 1987. First Edition. Pp, 51. A fine bright copy in dust jacket.

Signed by Seamus Heaney on the title page.

Poems exploring the theme of loss, and in particular a sonnet sequence concerning the death of the poet’s mother, are joined in the Haw Lantern by meditations on the conscience of the writer & exercises in an allegorical vein.