District and Circle. London: Faber & Faber, 2006. First Edition, First Issue. Pp, 76. Green cloth boards, title lettered in gilt to spine, in dust jacket printed in green and yellow. A fine copy.

Signed by Heaney on the title page.

The title references the London Underground District and Circle line—evoking journeys and memory—and the cyclical nature of history and personal experience. The poems blend vivid rural recollections from Heaney’s Irish upbringing with meditations on mortality, art, and contemporary crises.

The collection won the 2006 T. S. Eliot Prize, the most prestigious poetry award in the UK, and the Irish Times ‘Poetry Now’ award.