New Selected Poems 1966-1987. London: Faber & Faber, 2015. Faber Members Collectors’ Edition. Quarter maroon cloth, patterned paper boards, ribbon marker. A fine bright copy.

This edition was printed exclusively for Faber Members in a limited issue of 400 copies, sewn and quarter-bound in cloth by hand.

A collection of Heaney’s verse form his earliest work appearing in ‘Death of a Naturalist’ to his collection ‘The Haw Lantern’ published in 1987.

Since its original publication in 1990, New Selected Poems 1966-1987 has become a seminal edition, containing many of Seamus Heaney’s most cherished and studied poems, ‘Digging’, ‘Mid-Term Break’, ‘The Tollund Man’ and ‘Casualty’ among them. Together with its later, sibling volume, New Selected Poems 1988-2013, it opens the story on Seamus Heaney’s calling as a poet.