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Heaney, Seamus
A Lough Neagh Sequence
Publisher: Phoenix Pamphlet Poets Press, Manchester;
Edition: Limited Edition
Date of Publication: 1969
Stock Code: 3016
SIGNED COPY. LIMITED EDITION of 1000 copies only. Octavo. 11 pp plus advertisement leaf to rear. Book Condition: Fine. Original stapled card wraps with portrait photograph and brief biographical notes. Signed by the author to title page with dedication to Christopher Pilling, the award-winning poet and playwright : " Seamus Heaney for Christopher Pilling August 1972". The Phoenix Pamphlet Poets Press series was founded to promote the work of little-known poets of quality, and this was the third volume in the series, produced as a preview of the “Door into the Dark” collection published later ion the year. The first two volumes in the series were Love on the Moor by Glyn Hughes and Secret Marriages by Michael Longley, both published 1968; Christopher Pilling's own work "In all the spaces on all the lines" was published as the tenth in the series in 1971. Scarce. Sold