Eleven Poems

Belfast, 1965 — this pamphlet precedes Death of a Naturalist (Faber, London, 1966) and has no UK trade or American counterpart, so there is no competing edition and the Belfast issue is the unambiguous true first. Only the first issue, with the nine-point sun, is the true first printing; the second issue and the 1966 third printing are the same edition but not the first, and are the standing trap in a "first edition" listing. The census claim is confirmed.