Michael Longley

Ivor Griffiths, Poet, Novelist & Short Story Writer

:: Poet Home :: Poetry :: Short Stories :: Contact ::

Michael Longley (born 27 July 1939 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a Northern Irish poet..

Longley was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and subsequently read Classics at Trinity College, Dublin, where he edited Icarus. He holds honorary doctorates from Queen's University Belfast (1995) and Trinity College, Dublin (1999).

Gorse Fires (1991) won the Whitbread Poetry Prize and The Weather in Japan (2000) won the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Hawthornden Prize.

He is also the 2001 recipient of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.

Contents

  • 1 Partial bibliography
  • 2 Further reading
  • 3 External links
  • 4 See also

Partial bibliography

  • Ten Poems (1965)
  • Secret Marriages: Nine Short Poems (1968)
  • No Continuing City (1969)
  • Lares (1972)
  • An Exploded View (1973)
  • Fishing in the Sky: Love Poems (1975)
  • Man Lying on a Wall (1976)
  • The Echo Gate (1979)
  • Patchwork (1981)
  • Poems 1963-1983 (1985)
  • Poems 1963-1980 (1981)
  • Gorse Fires (1991)
  • Baucis and Philemon: After Ovid (1993)
  • Birds and Flowers: Poems (1994)
  • Tuppeny Stung: Autobiographical Chapters (1994)
  • The Ghost Orchid (1996)
  • Ship of the Wind (1997)
  • Broken Dishes (1998)
  • Selected Poems (1998)
  • The Weather in Japan (2000)
  • Snow Water (2004)
  • Collected Poems (2006)

Further reading

  • Fran Brearton Reading Michael Longley, 2006, Bloodaxe, ISBN-10 1852246839
  • Michael Longley at www.contemporarywriters.com contains a "Critical Perspective" section

See also

  • List of Northern Ireland writers
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from a Wikipedia article. To access the original click here.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2
or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;
with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU
Free Documentation License".