Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996

Faber and Faber Ltd, London, 1998. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. First Impression. Size: 8vo Octavo (standard book size). 479 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. This book is available and will be shipped within two business days. All items are tracked and details are available on request.. This volume is a much-needed new selection of Seamus Heaney's work, taking account of recent volumes and of the author's work as a translator, and offering a more generous choice from previous volumes. Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996 comes as close to being a 'Collected Poems' as its author cares to make it. It replaces his New Selected Poems 1966-1987, giving a fuller selection from each of the volumes represented there and adding large parts of those that have appeared since, together with examples of his work as a translator from the Greek, Latin, Italian and other languages. The book concludes with 'Crediting Poetry', the speech with which Seamus Heaney accepted the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded to him, in the words of the Swedish Academy of Letters, for his 'works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth'. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Poetry; Australia; ISBN: 0571194931. ISBN/EAN: 9780571194933. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 6024. . 9780571194933