First edition. Crown 8vo. Pp. [x], 76, [10 blank]. Publisher's hunter green cloth boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, bright yellow endpapers. Dark green dustjacket printed in lime green and bright yellow (priced £12.99 to front flap).
Winner of the 2006 T.S. Eliot Prize and the 2007 Irish Times "Poetry Now Award". Shortlisted for the 2006 Costa Poetry Award. Heaney's twelfth and penultimate volume of poetry. These poems first appeared, some in slightly different form, in publications such as Agenda, Agni, Harvard Review, Irish Pages, Metre, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry London, Pretext II, Scintilla, Guardian, Irish Examiner, Irish Times, London Review of Books, New York Review of Books, Salmagundi, Tatler, The New Yorker, The Yellow Nib, Times Literary Supplement, Village, and Waxwing Poems, amongst others. "A book as original, startling and aesthetically compelling as any since his magisterial 1984 sequence, Station Island." –The Washington Post Book World