Seeing Things. London: Faber & Faber, 1991. Second Impression, paperback issue. Pp 113. A very good copy.

Signed by Heaney on title page.

Illustration showing a detail from the Gundestrup Cauldron on upper cover.

Translations of Virgil and Dante provide a prelude and a coda. ‘Seeing Things, as the title adumbrates, is a book in which ordinary and the transfigured form part of a single vision.’