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Michael Longley (born 27 July 1939) is a Northern Irish^[1] poet from Belfast, Northern Ireland. His wife Edna is also an influential critic on modern Irish and British poetry.

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

On 6 September 2007, Longley was appointed Professor of Poetry for Ireland, a cross-border academic post set up in 1998, and previously held by John Montague, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Paul Durcan.

In North America, Michael Longley is published by Wake Forest University Press.

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 (1995)
• Ship of the Wind (1997)
• Broken Dishes (1998)
• Selected Poems (1998)
• The Weather in Japan (2000)
• Snow Water (2004)
• Collected Poems (2006)

Further reading

• Allen, Michael, ed. Options: The Poetry of Michael Longley, Éire-Ireland 10.4 (1975): pp. 129-35

• Allen Randolph, Jody and Douglas Archibald, eds. Special Issue on Michael Longley. Colby Quarterly 39.3 (September 2003)

• Brearton, Fran. Reading Michael Longley. Bloodaxe, 2006

• Clyde, Tom. Special Issue on Michael Longley. Honest Ulsterman 110 (Summer 2001)

• Peacock, Alan J. and Kathleen Devine, eds. The Poetry of Michael Longley: Ulster Editions and Monographs 10, Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 2000

References

See also

• List of Northern Irish writers

External links

• Michael Longley at Irish Writers Online
• Michael Longley at Contemporary Writers contains a "Critical Perspective" section
• Wake Forest University Press North American publisher of Longley