Field Work. London: Faber & Faber, 1979. First Edition. Pp, 64. A fine copy in pictorial dust jacket with very light fading to spine.

Field Work is the fifth collection of poetry by Seamus Heaney.

In a review for The New York Times, it was described as “a superb book, the most eloquent and far-reaching book he has written, a perennial poetry offered at a time when many of us have despaired of seeing such a thing.”