Midsummer feast.

Bibliographic Details
Contributors: Devlin, Polly, 1944-
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Format: Book
Language:English
Published / Created: Oldham [England] : Incline Press, 2002.
Notes:"The Devlins of Ardboe met this past midsummer for a feast. To celebrate the celebration, Polly Devlin has drawn together this collection of poetry and prose by and about the family, spouses, children and granchildren, showing how, in the words of one of them: Ravelling strands of families mesh in love-knots ..."--Colophon.

"As well as an illustration by Catherine Heaney, the book is embellished with linocuts by Bert Eastman and titlepage calligraphy by Diana Hardy Wilson"--Colophon.

"[P]rinted in Garamond types on a variety of Zerkall Butten papers ... bound with cloth spines and Ann Muir marbled paper over boards ..."--Colophon.

Limited edition of 230 copies. This is no. 113.

Prospectus laid in.

Physical description: 41 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Half title: Poetry and prose for the Midsummer feast at Cannwood House, 2002

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Table of Contents:
Catherine's poem and settle /Catherine Heaney
Spring /Franny Harvey
Asnapshot /Seamus Heaney
Rookery /Seamus Heaney
If I close my eyes /Polly Devlin
From The sharping stone /Seamus Heaney
Thewishing tree /Seamus Heaney
Poem for Rose, Daisy and Bay /Veronica Horwell
Assignment: autobiography /Daisy Garnett
Apeacock's feather (for Daisy Garnett) /Seamus Heaney
No way to treat a lady (for Polly Devlin) /Veronica Horwell
Sister Clare /Seamus Heaney
Wedding wish (for Rose and Tom) /Barry Devlin
Watercolour /Seamus Heaney
Oisin in the land of youth /Marie Heaney
Daisy /Polly Devlin
Theclothes shrine (for Marie) /Seamus Heaney
To Bay Garnett, like a picture /Patrick Kinmonth
Santiago de Compostela /Seamus Heaney
Renaissance /Tess Hurson
Anepithalamium for Rose and Tom - and for George /Seamus Heaney.