The Candlelight Master

ISBN-13: 9781787332034 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 80 str.

Michael Longley

Opis

'I can't bear the thought of a world without Michael Longley, yet his poetry keeps hurtling towards that fact more and more urgently as it stretches in an unflinching way beyond comfort or certainty.' So wrote Maria Johnston, reviewing Longley's previous book Angel Hill.

Recenzje

Michael Longley's luminous The Candlelight Master...demonstrate[s] how much poetry matters even in the most terrible of times. John Banville Irish Times *Books of the Year*

O autorze

Michael Longley has received many awards, among them the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Feltrinelli Poetry Prize, Hawthornden Prize, the Irish Times Poetry Now Award, the American Ireland Fund Literary Award and the Griffin International Prize. His Collected Poems was published in 2006, and Sidelines: Selected Prose in 2017. In 2001 Longley received the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, and in 2003 the Wilfred Owen Award. He was appointed a CBE in 2010, and from 2007 to 2010 was Ireland Professor of Poetry. In 2017 he received the PEN Pinter Prize, and in 2018 the inaugural Yakamochi Medal. In 2015 he was made a Freeman of the City of Belfast, where he and his wife the critic Edna Longley live and work.