HEANEY, Seamus.

£500 · Offered by Peter Harrington

Would They Had Stay'd. Heaney's Christmas card for 1997, signed by the author. Although not marked as such, the recipient was his close friend and patron Paul Sullivan, a stockbroker in Massachusetts. This copy was acquired directly from Sullivan's estate. Borrowing its title from Macbeth, the poem within imagines an encounter with three significant Scottish poets from the 20th century: Norman MacCaig, Sorley MacLean, and George Mackay Brown, all of whom had passed away in 1996.

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