In the Attic. DLR Poetry Now International Poetry Festival, 2009. ONE OF 375 COPIES signed by the author, printed in black and brown on tan paper. Printed to accompany the event ‘At the Centre of the Circle: A 70th Birthday Tribute to Seamus Heaney’. [2] pp, 16.5 x 9.5 inches (42 x 24 cm) approx. Some light creases and wear to corners and edges, overall fine.
From the Collection of the important American poet Frank Bidart, who received the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award, and the 2017 National Book Award for Poetry for his book Half-light: Collected Poems 1965–2016.
This four poem sequence circles around a young character from children's fiction: initially the trials, tribulations and conscience that assail a youngster at sea exposed to terror and stress within his short fictional life. The sea-faring metaphor is extended to Heaney's workspace to illustrate the interplay of reality and imagination triggered by an equally tumultuous existence. Enter thirdly a member of Heaney's own human chain - his maternal grandfather who confirmed memory-lapse as one of the drawbacks of the aging process. Finally Heaney himself, showing symptoms of age in his turn but not done yet!
In the Attic. DLR Poetry Now International Poetry Festival, 2009. ONE OF 375 COPIES signed by the author, printed in black and brown on tan paper. Printed to accompany the event ‘At the Centre of the Circle: A 70th Birthday Tribute to Seamus Heaney’. [2] pp, 16.5 x 9.5 inches (42 x 24 cm) approx. Some light creases and wear to corners and edges, overall fine.
From the Collection of the important American poet Frank Bidart, who received the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award, and the 2017 National Book Award for Poetry for his book Half-light: Collected Poems 1965–2016.
This four poem sequence circles around a young character from children's fiction: initially the trials, tribulations and conscience that assail a youngster at sea exposed to terror and stress within his short fictional life. The sea-faring metaphor is extended to Heaney's workspace to illustrate the interplay of reality and imagination triggered by an equally tumultuous existence. Enter thirdly a member of Heaney's own human chain - his maternal grandfather who confirmed memory-lapse as one of the drawbacks of the aging process. Finally Heaney himself, showing symptoms of age in his turn but not done yet!