Michael Longley has been called 'one of the finest lyric poets of our time'. In assembling the work of forty years, his Collected Poems displays a brilliantly sustained achievement whose depth, beauty and wit can now be fully appreciated. Longley's poetry combines intense concentration with remarkable variety. The formal and thematic range laid down in No Continuing City (1969) has undergone a series of rich metamorphoses up to Snow Water (2004), and the two poems included here as an epilogue. Longley's genres span love poetry, war poetry, nature poetry, elegies, satires, verse epistles,...
Michael Longley has been called 'one of the finest lyric poets of our time'. In assembling the work of forty years, his Collected Poems displays a bri...
In his 75th year, the tenth collection by the greatest living Northern Irish poet. Shortlisted for the 2014 T.S. Eliot Prize Shortlisted for the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize In "The Stairwell," his tenth collection, Michael Longley s themes and forms reach a new intensity. The second part of the book is a powerful sequence of elegies for his twin brother, Peter, and the dominant mood elsewhere is elegiac. The title poem begins: I have been thinking about the music for my funeral The two parts are also linked by Homer. Longley is well-known for his Homeric versions, and the "Iliad "is...
In his 75th year, the tenth collection by the greatest living Northern Irish poet. Shortlisted for the 2014 T.S. Eliot Prize Shortlisted for th...
