Electric Light. New York: Farrar, Struas, 2001. First American Edition. Pp, 98. Quarter parchment paper boards, in pictorial dust jacket designed by Susan Mitchell. A fine bright copy.

Signed by the Author on the title page

The collection explores childhood, nature, and poetry itself and is written in two parts.

Part one presents translations and adaptations, occasional and celebratory poems, and verse about travel in the Gaeltacht, the Balkans and Greece.

Part two of the collection consists of elegies for poets (Ted Hughes, Joseph Brodsky, and Zbigniew Herbert), and Heaney’s relatives and friends.