The Blackbird’s Nest

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The Blackbird’s Nest: An Anthology of Poetry from Queen’s University Belfast – Signed Limited Edition in Slipcase
Frank Ormsby
ISBN 10: 0856407976 / ISBN 13: 9780856407970
Published by Blackstaff Press, Belfast, 2006

An anthology of poetry from Queen’s University Belfast edited by Frank Ormsby with a foreword by Seamus Heaney and an afterword by Ciaran Carson. Limited edition of 250 copies signed by Ormsby, Heaney and Carson. 151 pages. Publisher’s quarter leather cream paper-covered boards, housed in matching publisher’s slipcase. This is Number 207/250. Queen’s University Belfast was at the heart of the remarkable flowering of poetry in Northern Ireland in the 1960s, a flowering that saw poet graduates such as Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon take Irish poetry to an international audience. Beginning with Helen Waddell. the anthology gathers together those poets who have helped to nurture poetry at the university, including John Hewitt. Philip Larkin, Michael Longley, and Medbh McGuckian, as well as the many other poets, whether former graduates or members of staff, who have made a vital contribution to the development of poetry at Queen’s. Collector’s Item. Seller Inventory # 631

Title: The Blackbird’s Nest: An Anthology of Poetry from Queen’s University Belfast – Signed Limited Edition in Slipcase
Frank Ormsby
Publisher: Blackstaff Press, Belfast
Publication Date: 2006
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: As New
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: Limited Edition