Death of a Naturalist. London: Faber, 1969. First Paperback Edition. Pp, 57. A fine bright copy.

The authors first commercially published work which earned for Heaney the E.C. Gregory, the Cholmondeley and the Somerset Maugham awards as well as the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.

It has now come to be recognised as one of the most significant collections of poetry in modern times