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

Signed by the Seamus Heaney on the front free endpaper. Additionally Signed by his daughter Catherine, to the pages of the poems which Heaney wrote for her: ‘A Hazel Stick for Catherine Ann’ and ‘A Pillowed Head.’ 

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 includes several previously uncollected poems.