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The Echo Gate

by Michael Longley

Poetry about love, intimacy, and the natural world with mythic resonance

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About the author

Michael Longley
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

  • No Continuing CityEarly poetry on loss, displacement, and the search for enduring meaning→
  • An Exploded ViewPoems exploring perspective shift, fragmentation, and fractured human perception→
  • 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→

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