Lough Derg. A Poem. With Foreword by Paul Durcan. London: Martin Brian & O’Keeffe, 1978. First UK Edition. Pp, 24. Green cloth boards in light green dust jacket lettered in brown. Jacket lightly faded, otherwise a fine bright copy.

Frontispiece drawing of St Patrick’s Purgatory from an engraving published in 1844. 

‘Lough Derg is a masterly poem and essential to any full understanding of Patrick Kavanagh’s work.’

One of a small number issued in hardback.