The School Bag. London: Faber & Faber, 1997. Third Impression (paperback issue). Pp xvii, 590. Pictorial card wrappers, minor shelf-wear, contents in fine condition.

Presentation copy, Inscribed by Heaney on the title page with a quote from British poet John Dryden.

Poems that invite different kinds of historical and thematic reading resembling ‘a school of poetry’ gathered on traditional bardic lines.

John Dryden (1631-1700) was appointed England’s first Poet Laureate in 1668.