Crediting Poetry. The Nobel Lecture. Dublin: Gallery Press, 1995. First Edition, First Issue. Pp, 9. Fine copy in pictorial card covers.

Signed by Seamus Heaney on title page.

Seamus Heaney’s Nobel Lecture, captured here in Crediting Poetry, is a powerful defence of poetry as “the ship and the anchor” of our spirit within an ocean of violent, divisive politics and “world-sorrow.”

Delivered in Stockholm in December 1995, Heaney’s lecture intertwines his rural upbringing in Northern Ireland with the broader human condition, emphasising how poetry can offer both solace and insight amid conflict.