Gorse Fires

Name: Gorse Fires
Author: Michael Longley

by Michael Longley

Collection on love and devastation amid violence in modern Northern Ireland

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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.

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