Gorse Fires is an unusual artistic blend: darkly austere, yet abundant in images, catalogues and syntactical virtuosity. Longley’s versions of Odysseus’ return to Ithaca and ‘Ghetto’ – based on the polish ghettos – epitomize his concern with the meaning of home and family.
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... a contemporary who should endure over the life of our language One of the finest lyric poets of our century Longley may not possess, or want, the international glamour of some of his contemporaries, but the poems in Gorse Fires, both individually and collectively, bewitch with the magic of coherence Guardian A keeper of the artistic estate, a custodian of griefs and wonders
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Michael Longley was born in Belfast in 1939, and educated at The Royal Belfast Academical Institution and Trinity College, Dublin, where he read Classics. He has published eight collections of poetry including Gorse Fires (1991) which won the Whitbread Poetry Award and The Weather in Japan (2000) which won the Hawthornden Prize, the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Irish Times Poetry Prize. His most recent collection Snow Water (2004) was awarded the Librex Montale Prize. In 2001 he received the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, and in 2003 the Wilfred Owen Award. His Collected Poems was published by Cape in 2006. He and his wife, the critic Edna Longley, live and work in Belfast.
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