• Source: Michael Longley

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


      Life and career


      One of twin boys, Michael Longley was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, to English parents, Longley was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution, and subsequently read Classics at Trinity College, Dublin, where he edited Icarus. He was the Ireland Professor of Poetry from 2007 to 2010, a cross-border academic post set up in 1998, previously held by John Montague, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, and Paul Durcan. He was succeeded in 2010 by Harry Clifton. North American editions of Longley's work are published by Wake Forest University Press.
      Over 50 years, he has spent much time in Carrigskeewaun, County Mayo, which has inspired much of his poetry.
      His wife, Edna, is a critic on modern Irish and British poetry. They have three children. Their daughter is the artist Sarah Longley. An atheist, Longley describes himself as a "sentimental" disbeliever.
      On 14 January 2014, he participated in the BBC Radio 3 series The Essay – Letters to a Young Poet. Taking Rainer Maria Rilke's classic text Letters to a Young Poet as inspiration, leading poets wrote a letter to a protege. Longley has provided readings of his poetry for the Irish Poetry Reading Archive (UCD).
      In 1994, Longley wrote his most famous poem, 'Ceasefire'. The poem was written in hope of a ceasefire between the IRA and British Unionist Forces, and was released only one day before one came about. The poem adapts a famous scene from the Iliad, where King Priam begs for the body of his son back from the warrior Achilles.
      His twin brother, Peter, died in 2013/14. Longley dedicated the second half of The Stairwell (2014), his tenth collection, to him.


      Awards and honours


      Gorse Fires (1991) won the Whitbread Poetry Prize. The Weather in Japan (2000) won the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Hawthornden Prize. It also brought him the inaugural Yakamochi Medal in 2018. He holds honorary doctorates from Queen's University Belfast (1995) and Trinity College, Dublin (1999) and was the 2001 recipient of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. Longley was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2010 Birthday Honours.
      Longley won a 2011 London Awards for Art and Performance. His collection A Hundred Doors won the Poetry Now Award in September 2012.
      His 2014 collection, The Stairwell, won the 2015 International Griffin Poetry Prize. In 2015, he received the Ulster Tatler Lifetime Achievement Award. He was awarded the PEN Pinter Prize in 2017. The Chair of the judges, Don Paterson, said: "For decades now his effortlessly lyric and fluent poetry has been wholly suffused with the qualities of humanity, humility and compassion, never shying away from the moral complexity that comes from seeing both sides of an argument."
      In 2015 Longley was elected a Freeman of the City of Belfast. In 2018, he was made an honorary fellow of Trinity College Dublin.


      List of works



      Ten Poems (1965), Belfast: Festival Publications
      Secret Marriages: Nine Short Poems (1968), Manchester: Phoenix Press
      No Continuing City (1969), London: Macmillan: New York: Dufour Editions
      Lares (1972) Woodford Green, London: Poet & Printer
      An Exploded View (1973), London: Victor Gollancz
      Fishing in the Sky: Love Poems (1975), London: Poet & Printer
      Man Lying on a Wall (1976), London: Victor Gollancz; (1977) New York: Transatlantic Arts
      The Echo Gate (1979) London: Seeker & Warburg; New York: Random House
      Selected Poems 1963–1980 (1981), Winston-Salem, USA: Wake Forest University Press
      Patchwork (1981), Dublin: The Gallery Press
      Poems 1963–1983 (1985), Edinburgh: The Salamander Press; Dublin: The Gallery Press; (1987) Winston-Salem, USA: Wake Forest University Press,
      Gorse Fires (1991), London: Seeker & Warburg; Winston-Salem, USA: Wake Forest University Press
      Baucis and Philemon: After Ovid (1993), London: Poet & Printer
      Birds and Flowers: Poems (1994), Edinburgh: Morning Star
      Tuppeny Stung: Autobiographical Chapters (1994), Belfast: Lagan Press
      The Ghost Orchid (1995), London: Jonathan Cape; (1996) Winston-Salem, USA: Wake Forest University Press
      Ship of the Wind (1997), Dublin: Poetry Ireland
      Broken Dishes (1998), Newry, Northern Ireland: Abbey Press
      Selected Poems (1998), London: Jonathan Cape; (1999) Winston-Salem, USA: Wake Forest University Press
      Out of the Cold (1999), Newry, Northern Ireland: Abbey Press
      The Weather in Japan (2000), London: Jonathan Cape; Winston-Salem, USA: Wake Forest University Press
      Cenotaph of Snow: Sixty Poems About War (2003), London: Enitharmon Press
      Snow Water (2004), London: Jonathan Cape; Winston-Salem, USA: Wake Forest University Press
      The Rope-Makers (2005), London: Enitharmon Press
      Collected Poems (2006), London: Jonathan Cape; (2007), Winston-Salem, USA: Wake Forest University Press
      A Jovial Hullabaloo (2008), London: Enitharmon Press
      A Hundred Doors (2011), London: Jonathan Cape; Winston-Salem, USA: Wake Forest University Press
      The Stairwell (2014), London: Jonathan Cape; Winston-Salem, USA: Wake Forest University Press
      One Wide Expanse (2015), Dublin: University College Dublin Press
      Sea Asters (2015), published by Andrew J Moorhouse – Fine Press Poetry
      The Dipper's Range (2016), Rochdale, UK: Andrew J Moorhouse, Fine Press Poetry
      Twelve Poems (2016), Thame, Oxford: Clutag Press
      Angel Hill (2017), London: Jonathan Cape; Winston-Salem, USA: Wake Forest University Press
      Sidelines: Selected Prose (2017), London: Enitharmon Press
      Ghetto (2019), Rochdale, UK: Andrew J Moorhouse, Fine Press Poetry
      The Candlelight Master (2020), London: Jonathan Cape; Winston-Salem, USA: Wake Forest University Press
      Homer's Octopus (2020), Rochdale, UK: Andrew J Moorhouse, Fine Press Poetry
      Metamorphoses (2022), Rochdale, UK: Andrew J Moorhouse, Fine Press Poetry
      Canticle (2022), Rochdale, UK: Andrew J Moorhouse, Fine Press Poetry
      The Slain Birds (2022), London: Jonathan Cape
      Birds & Flowers (2024), Rochdale, UK: Andrew J Moorhouse, Fine Press Poetry


      See also



      List of Northern Irish writers


      References




      Further reading


      Allen, Michael, ed. Options: The Poetry of Michael Longley, Éire-Ireland 10.4 (1975): pp. 129–35.
      Allen Randolph, Jody. "Michael Longley, February 2010". Close to the Next Moment: Interviews from a Changing Ireland. Manchester: Carcanet, 2010.
      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, ed. 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, Buckinghamshire, England: Colin Smythe, 2000.
      Robertson, Robin, ed. Love Poet, Carpenter: Michael Longley at Seventy. London: Enitharmon Press, 2009.
      Russell, Richard Rankin. Poetry and Peace: Michael Longley, Seamus Heaney, and Northern Ireland. South Bend, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2010.


      External links



      Michael Longley at British Council: Literature (contains a "Critical Perspective" section)
      Video readings in the Irish Poetry Reading Archive, UCD Digital Library, University College Dublin
      Video recording of Michael Longley poetry reading at the University of Birmingham on YouTube
      Wake Forest University Press North American publisher of Longley
      Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery
      Poetry archive profile and poems written and audio
      Ulster Museum portrait
      Audio interview by Krista Tippett
      Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University: Michael Longley papers, 1960-2000

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