SELECTED AND NEW POEMS

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Hardcover issue. Publisher's original black cloth with titles in gilt to the spine, in the John Shinnors illustrated dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents, very lightly toned to the text block edge, are clean throughout and without previous owners' marks. Complete with fine original dustwrapper that is without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£12.95 to the front flap).

Signed by Michael Hartnett in black ink on the title page. The first edition was published in simultaneous paperback and hardback editions, on 22 July 1994. This selection includes 'Anatomy of a Cliché' (1968), 'Prisoners' (1968), 'The Retreat of Ita Cagney' (1975), 'Inchicore Haiku' (1985), in addition to sonnets 1 and 9 from 'Thirteen Sonnets' (1968), poems 5 and 7 from 'A Farewell to English' (1975), and the first five poems from 'Notes on My Contemporaries' (1969): 'The Poet Down', 'The Poet as Mastercraftsman', 'The Poet as Black Sheep', 'The Person as Dreamer: We Talk About the Future', and 'The Poet Dreams and Resolves'. A former poetry editor of The Irish Times, Hartnett was a member of Aosdána, the Affiliation of Creative Artists in Ireland, and a recipient of numerous literary and poetry awards during his lifetime, including the Irish Poetry Prize (1980), a Poetry Ireland Choice (1987), and awards from the Irish American Cultural Institute (1986, 1988) and the American Ireland Literary Fund Award (1975, 1980, and 1990). Michael Hartnett sadly passed away on 13th October 1999, at the age of 58. The Éigse Michael Hartnett, a poetry festival established in 2000, is held annually in Newcastle West, County Limerick, in his honour (Poetry Foundation, 2025).