Michael Longley
Northern Irish poet whose meditative, elegiac verse draws on classical mythology and the landscape of Mayo. Gorse Fires won the Whitbread Poetry Award in 1991.
Works
- No Continuing CityEarly poetry on loss, displacement, and the search for enduring meaning
- An Exploded ViewPoems exploring perspective shift, fragmentation, and fractured human perception
- The Echo GatePoetry about love, intimacy, and the natural world with mythic resonance
- Gorse FiresCollection on love and devastation amid violence in modern Northern Ireland
- The Weather in JapanPoems contemplating travel, landscape, and the natural world in Japan