North

<p><b>This edition of Seamus Heaney’s seminal fourth collection <i>North</i>, reproduced in its elegant first setting and in its original jacket, marks fifty years since first publication in 1975.</b><br><br>By conjuring aspects of a shared Northern European experience – its peculiar landscapes and weathers, its sea-faring incursions, the vernaculars of its buried and living peoples – Heaney found a way of articulating a vision of Ireland in which the disruptions and violences of the Troubles could be reflected too.<br><br>‘. . . it’s the brilliant reconciliation of art with politics that sets <i>North</i> apart from the rest of Heaney’s oeuvre and gives it a kind of dark majesty.’ Robert McCrum, <i>Guardian</i><br><br>‘The seedtime of the soul and the dissolution of the flesh melt equally into history, exhumed only temporarily in Heaney’s penetrating vision, where gravity and preservation unite.’ Helen Vendler, <i>New York Times</i></p>