North. London: Faber, 1975. First Paperback Edition. Pp, 73. Pale blue pictorial wrappers, with portrait of Heaney by Edward McGuire to rear cover. A fine bright copy.

A collection of poems in which the Irish experience is refracted through memories of the Scandinavian and English invasions which have marked Irish history so indelibly.

The collection was to win the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize and the W. H. Smith Memorial Prize.