Description
8vo, pp. [12]. Original green wrappers printed in dark purple. A tiny touch of wear to foot of spine.
Ten Poems.
- Belfast: Festival Publications, Queen's University of Belfast 1967
£75
Notes
The second printing of Michael Longley's first publication, equally scarce as the original and still predating any of his other printed work. The Festival Publications pamphlets included the first publications of a number of significant poets, Longley and Seamus Heaney the most prominent among them. These were initially published in white wrappers in 1965, but when a second series of other poets (among them Lerner, Montague, Buller, and Arthur Terry) was produced in 1967 in thicker green wrappers, those of the original run that had sold out were reprinted to match. As advertised on the rear cover here, Longley, Heaney, Mahon, and Hobsbaum had been reprinted, while Terry, Newman, Parker, Simmons, and Dean were then still available in the original editions.
