The Settle Bed
Privately printed for Seamus Heaney by Peter Fallon, 1989.
A single bi-fold sheet of cream card with title and illustration to front cover and a poem within. Lengthy inscription by Seamus Heaney to Rosemary Goad, "Dear Rosemary, sorry not to have had a better talk when we met at Canterbury. But I was glad to see you looking so well and to recognize the signs of 'life after Fabers'. Much love from Marie and me and all the Heaneyeens at Christmas, Seamus". One autograph correction to the text of the poem, changed the printed "seasonal" to "seasoned". A fine copy.
Seamus Heaney's Christmas Card for 1989.
This is the poem's first appearance. It was later published in Parnassus in July 1990, and in a festschrift for Robert Graecen in February 1991, before being collected later that year in Seeing Things (Faber, 1991).
PROVENANCE: From the library of Rosemary Goad (1928-2021), the first female director of Faber & Faber.
Brandes & Durkan AA25.
Stock ID: 44190
£1,250.00
