THE SPIRIT LEVEL

LIMITED SIGNED FIRST EDITION, one of only 350 copies signed by the poet/author on the limitation page. 8vo, publisher's original charcoal paper-covered boards backed in black cloth, the spine with a printed paper label, in the gray and black slipcase and still sealed in the publisher's shrink-wrap. 70 pp. A perfect copy, entirely as new and still in the publisher's sealed shrink-wrap. A better copy is unimaginable.

Edizione: a perfect copy of this author signed limited edition of only 350 copies. the spirit level was heaney's first collection to be published after winning the 1995 nobel prize in literature. it won the 1996 poetry prize at the whitbread awards and contains over 40 poems.<br> "the poems in the spirit level continue to acknowledge the ‘everyday miracles and the living past’ which the swedish academy recognised in its nobel citation in 1995. in it, private memories, classical scenes, domestic objects – a whitewash brush, a sofa, a swing – are endowed with talismanic significance, while friends and relatives are invoked in poems such as ‘keeping going’, ‘at banagher’ and ‘a call’. as the name suggests, a recurring theme is that of equilibrium and balance, between spiritual and political, past and present – the condition of being, in the words of its iconic final poem ‘postscript’, ‘neither here nor there’. on its publication in 1996, the spirit levelwon the whitbread book of the year." - heaney estate.