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Michael Longley (born 27 July, 1939 in Belfast
Belfast

Belfast is the capital city of Northern Ireland and the seat of Devolution#United Kingdom Northern Ireland Executive and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly in Northern Ireland....
, Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland

conventional_long_name = Northern Ireland|native_name= Tuaisceart ?ireannNorlin Airlann|motto =|image_map = Europe location N-IRL2.png...
) is a Northern Irish poet
Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry....
.

Longley was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution
Royal Belfast Academical Institution

The Royal Belfast Academical Institution, commonly known as 'Inst.', is a Voluntary secondary school non-denominational grammar school for boys, founded in 1810, in College Square, Belfast, Northern Ireland and is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference ....
 and subsequently read Classics
Classics

Classics is the branch of the Humanities comprising the languages, literature, philosophy, history, art, and other culture of the ancient Mediterranean World; especially Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome during Classical Antiquity ....
 at Trinity College, Dublin
Trinity College, Dublin

Trinity College, Dublin , corporately designated as the Provost, Fellows and Scholars of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, was founded in 1592 by Queen Elizabeth I of England as the "mother of a university", and is the only constituent residential college of the University of Dublin....
, where he edited Icarus
Icarus (magazine)

Icarus is a student literary magazine based in Trinity College, Dublin. It publishes one issue per academic term and accepts submissions of poetry, prose and drama from students, staff and alumni of Dublin University It was founded in 1950 by Alec Reid and has been published with regularity three times a year ever since....
. He holds honorary doctorates from Queen's University Belfast (1995) and Trinity College, Dublin
Trinity College, Dublin

Trinity College, Dublin , corporately designated as the Provost, Fellows and Scholars of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, was founded in 1592 by Queen Elizabeth I of England as the "mother of a university", and is the only constituent residential college of the University of Dublin....
 (1999).

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

The T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry is awarded by the Poetry Book Society to "the best collection of new verse in English first published in the UK or the Republic of Ireland" in any particular year....
 and the Hawthornden Prize
Hawthornden Prize

The Hawthornden Prize is a United Kingdom literary award. It was established in 1919 by Alice Warrender, a contemporary patron of the letters, and named after William Drummond of Hawthornden....
.

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

The Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry is awarded for a book of verse published by someone from the United Kingdom or a Commonwealth realm. Originally the award was open only to British subjects living in the United Kingdom, but in 1985 the scope was extended to include people from the Commonwealth of Nations realms....
.

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

John Montague may refer to:*John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich , British statesman*John Montague , Irish poet and writer*John Montague , baseball relief pitcher...
, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill

Nuala N? Dhomhnaill is an Ireland poet.Born in Lancashire, England in 1952, of Irish parents, she moved to Ireland at the age of 5, and was brought up in the Dingle Gaeltacht and in Nenagh, County Tipperary....
 and Paul Durcan
Paul Durcan

Paul Durcan is a contemporary Irish people poet....
.

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

Established in 1976, Wake Forest University Press is a non-profit literary Publishing located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on the campus of Wake Forest University....
.


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Michael Longley (born 27 July, 1939 in Belfast
Belfast

Belfast is the capital city of Northern Ireland and the seat of Devolution#United Kingdom Northern Ireland Executive and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly in Northern Ireland....
, Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland

conventional_long_name = Northern Ireland|native_name= Tuaisceart ?ireannNorlin Airlann|motto =|image_map = Europe location N-IRL2.png...
) is a Northern Irish poet
Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry....
.

Longley was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution
Royal Belfast Academical Institution

The Royal Belfast Academical Institution, commonly known as 'Inst.', is a Voluntary secondary school non-denominational grammar school for boys, founded in 1810, in College Square, Belfast, Northern Ireland and is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference ....
 and subsequently read Classics
Classics

Classics is the branch of the Humanities comprising the languages, literature, philosophy, history, art, and other culture of the ancient Mediterranean World; especially Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome during Classical Antiquity ....
 at Trinity College, Dublin
Trinity College, Dublin

Trinity College, Dublin , corporately designated as the Provost, Fellows and Scholars of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, was founded in 1592 by Queen Elizabeth I of England as the "mother of a university", and is the only constituent residential college of the University of Dublin....
, where he edited Icarus
Icarus (magazine)

Icarus is a student literary magazine based in Trinity College, Dublin. It publishes one issue per academic term and accepts submissions of poetry, prose and drama from students, staff and alumni of Dublin University It was founded in 1950 by Alec Reid and has been published with regularity three times a year ever since....
. He holds honorary doctorates from Queen's University Belfast (1995) and Trinity College, Dublin
Trinity College, Dublin

Trinity College, Dublin , corporately designated as the Provost, Fellows and Scholars of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, was founded in 1592 by Queen Elizabeth I of England as the "mother of a university", and is the only constituent residential college of the University of Dublin....
 (1999).

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

The T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry is awarded by the Poetry Book Society to "the best collection of new verse in English first published in the UK or the Republic of Ireland" in any particular year....
 and the Hawthornden Prize
Hawthornden Prize

The Hawthornden Prize is a United Kingdom literary award. It was established in 1919 by Alice Warrender, a contemporary patron of the letters, and named after William Drummond of Hawthornden....
.

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

The Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry is awarded for a book of verse published by someone from the United Kingdom or a Commonwealth realm. Originally the award was open only to British subjects living in the United Kingdom, but in 1985 the scope was extended to include people from the Commonwealth of Nations realms....
.

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

John Montague may refer to:*John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich , British statesman*John Montague , Irish poet and writer*John Montague , baseball relief pitcher...
, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill

Nuala N? Dhomhnaill is an Ireland poet.Born in Lancashire, England in 1952, of Irish parents, she moved to Ireland at the age of 5, and was brought up in the Dingle Gaeltacht and in Nenagh, County Tipperary....
 and Paul Durcan
Paul Durcan

Paul Durcan is a contemporary Irish people poet....
.

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

Established in 1976, Wake Forest University Press is a non-profit literary Publishing located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on the campus of Wake Forest University....
.

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

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

AllenRandolph, Jody and Douglas Archibald, eds. Special Issue on Michael Longley. Colby Quarterly 39.3 (Sep. 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.

External links

  • contains a "Critical Perspective" section
  • North American publisher of Longley


See also