Electric Light. London: Faber, 2001. First Paperback Edition. Pp 79. Fine copy in wrappers.

Signed & Dated by Seamus Heaney on the title page.

Heaney’s eleventh poetry collection, exploring 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.