The Silence at the Song's End

118pp. Blue cloth covered boards (sharp, bright, clean). Coloured endpapers. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket (very gentle shelf wear). Heiney was the son of the journalist, Libby Purves, who edited this work after his death. An Oxford graduate, Heiney became disillusioned with the literary critical industry and spent his last six years sailing, crossing both the Atlantic and the Pacific as a deckhand aboard the Europa and training young Koreans in seamanship. He took his life in 2006 after a long but well-concealed battle with a mental disturbance. His sea-logs, poems and journals are moving and insightful.