Opened Ground. Poems 1966-1996. London: Faber, 1998. First Edition, Second Issue. Pp, 478. Green paper boards, in pictorial dust jacket. A fine bright copy.

Signed by the Author on the front free endpaper. 

As selected by the author, Opened Ground includes the essential work from Heaney’s twelve previous books of poetry, as well as new sequences drawn from two of his landmark translations, The Cure at Troy and Sweeney Astray.

Also included several previously uncollected poems.