No Continuing City

Name: No Continuing City
Author: Michael Longley

by Michael Longley

Early poetry on loss, displacement, and the search for enduring meaning

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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.

More by Michael Longley

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