R.M.S. Titanic. Dublin: Raven Arts, 1981. First Edition Thus. Pp 24. Blue cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt, in publisher’s pictorial dust jacket. A fine bright copy.

Presentation copy, Inscribed by the Author to the publisher Dermot Bulger.

Cronin first elegy of the modern era, ‘RMS Titanic’ – which has been described as the best epic poem of the twentieth century – first appeared in print in the magazine X in 1961. Published in an edition of approximately 150 copies in hardback.

Number 2 in the Raven Long Poem Series. with an introduction by Paul Durcan.