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Angel Hill by Michael Longley
Category: Poetry
Winner of the 2017 PEN Pinter prize Shortlisted for the 2017 Forward Prize A remote townland in County Mayo, Carrigskeewaun has been for nearly fifty years Michael Longley's home-from-home, his soul-landscape. Its lakes and mountains, wild animals and flowers, its moody seas and skies have for decades ...Show more
Collected Poems by Longley, Michael
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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 v ...Show more
The Candlelight Master by Longley, Michael
Category: Poetry
'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. Yet The Candlelight Master does ...Show more
The Slain Birds by Michael Longley
Category: Poetry
The new collection from the greatest living Irish poet - who Seamus Heaney called 'a keeper of the artistic estate, a custodian of griefs and wonders'. 'One of the most perfect poets alive. There is something in his work both ancient and modern. I read him as I might check the sky for stars.' Sebastian ...Show more
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