 The collection was first published in the UK and Ireland in 1984 by Faber & Faber and was then published in America by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1985.Seamus Heaney has been recorded reading this collection on the "Seamus Heaney Collected Poems" album.The title of the collection, "Station Island", is taken from the long poem of the same name that comprises the second part of the collection.