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Article: Special accolade for Michael Longley, poet of the ...
The Independent - London;  April 24, 2001 ;     700+ words ...THE NORTHERN Irish poet Michael Longley has been awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for poetry, one ... made by the Queen on the advice of a committee chaired by the Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion. For Longley, born in Belfast in 1939 and ...

Article: Book Review: Michael Longley: Quiet man who speaks ...
Scotland on Sunday;  November 19, 2006 ;     670 words ...Collected Poems , Michael Longley Jonathan Cape, GBP 25.00 POETS ... outside Ireland, and only one, Michael Longley, has remained rooted in his ... though, this volume shows that Michael Longley deserves every bit as much acclaim ...

Article: The Difficulty of We: the epistolary poems of Michael ...
Yearbook of English Studies;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...In 1971, Michael Longley published two epistolary poems ... similarities is captured well in Michael Longley's phrase 'sodality of the imagination ... They all have publishers except Michael Longley, 18, Hillside Park, Belfast ...

Article: Michael Longley: Northern Ireland's poet of nature.
Contemporary Review;  April 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...MICHAEL Longley was born in Belfast in 1939 and was educated at the Royal Belfast ... In 'Icon and Lares', Gerald Dawe (1985) suggests that for Michael Longley, 'the west of Ireland is seen as an embodiment of some kind of ...

Article: MICHAEL LONGLEY NAMED AS WINNER OF THE T S ELIOT ...
PR Newswire;  January 22, 2001 ;     673 words ... ... This press release is transmitted on behalf of Bol.com Michael Longley was named the winner of the 8th T S Eliot Prize for poetry ... Les Murray, Don Paterson, Ted Hughes and Hugo Williams. Michael Longley was born in Belfast in 1939 and educated at the Royal Belfast ...

Article: Book Festival Review: Michael Longley
The Scotsman;  August 13, 2007 ;     375 words ...AN HOUR of sublime poetry helped bring the first day at the Book Festival to a close. Belfast's Michael Longley is one of the finest lyric poets of our time, and his recent Collected Poems brings together four decades of writing. Thus it ...

Article: Writers pay tribute at Michael Longley's 70th ...
The Irish Times;  June 26, 2009 ;     540 words ... ... assembled at Queen's University Belfast yesterday evening to pay a surprise 70th birthday tribute to the Belfast poet Michael Longley. More than 50 artists, mostly poets and prose writers, contributed to a festschrift, entitled Love Poet, Carpenter ...