The Haw Lantern. London: Faber, 1987. First Edition. Pp, 51. A near fine copy in dust jacket.

Signed and dated by the Heaney on front free endpaper, with photograph of the author pasted-in.

Poems exploring the theme of loss, and in particular a sonnet sequence concerning the death of the poet’s mother, are joined in the Haw Lantern by meditations on the conscience of the writer & exercises in an allegorical vein.