HEANEY, Seamus.

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Night Drive. First edition, number 41 of 100 copies signed and dated by the poet. This is one of 55 copies inscribed by Heaney with a poem on the verso of the first leaf, in this copy "Twice Shy", his delicate verses on two lovers (himself and Marie) anxiously meeting for their first date on the river.Night Drive was published as part of Richard Gilbertson's Manuscript Series, which produced similar editions of poems by Ted Hughes, Kathleen Raine, Tom Gunn, George Mackay Brown, and Peter Redgrove. "Twice Shy" was first printed on 28 January 1965 in The Listener and subsequently collected in Death of a Naturalist (1966).

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