Wintering Out. London: Faber & Faber, 1975. Third Impression. Pp, 80. A nice bright copy.

Signed by the Heaney on the half title page.

Heaney’s third collection and a pivotal work in his poetical development, first published in paperback in 1972.

Having spent a year as guest lecturer at Berkeley, California, this collection reflects a broadening of the author’s landscapes, at a time of the deteriorating political situation in Northern Ireland, and coinciding with his move of residence from Ulster to the Irish Republic.