This edition of Seamus Heaney's significant fourth collection, North, reproduced in its elegant original form and with its original dust jacket, marks fifty years since its first publication in 1975.

Invoking aspects of a shared North European experience – the distinctive landscapes and climates, its maritime raids, and the local languages of its hidden and living peoples – Heaney found a way to express a vision of Ireland where the disruptions and violence of the Troubles are also depicted.

“…the brilliant reconciliation of art with politics is what sets North apart from the rest of Heaney's work and grants it a dark grandeur.” Robert McCrum, Guardian

“The seed of the soul and the dissolution of the flesh merge equally in the story, resurrected only temporarily through Heaney's penetrating vision, where gravity and preservation unite.” Helen Vendler, New York Times

Pages: 80, Dimensions: 13.5x13.5cm