Seamus Heaney. The Making of a Poet. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1993. First Edition. Pp xi, 294. A fine bright copy in pictorial stiff wrappers.

“The fullest account yet of Heaney’s early life, and the experiences, influences & relationships – personal, literary & political -that shaped his poetic development.”

Illustrated with a map & ten photographs.