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Angel Hill
Michael Longley
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Description for Angel Hill
Paperback. A remote townland in County Mayo, Carrigskeewaun has been the author's home-from-home, his soul-landscape. Its lakes and mountains, wild animals and flowers, its moody seas and skies have for decades lit up his poetry. In this book, imaginations of poet and painter intermingle and two exacting wildernesses productively overlap. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130. .
A Guardian / Herald Scotland Book of the Year Winner of the 2017 PEN Pinter prize Shortlisted for the 2017 Forward Prize A remote townland in County Mayo, Carrigskeewaun has been for nearly fifty years Michael Longley's home-from-home, his soul-landscape. Its lakes and mountains, wild animals and flowers, its moody seas and skies have for decades lit up his poetry. Now they overflow into Angel Hill, his exuberant new collection. In addition, Longley has been exploring Lochalsh in the Western Highlands where his daughter the painter Sarah Longley now lives ... Read more
A Guardian / Herald Scotland Book of the Year Winner of the 2017 PEN Pinter prize Shortlisted for the 2017 Forward Prize A remote townland in County Mayo, Carrigskeewaun has been for nearly fifty years Michael Longley's home-from-home, his soul-landscape. Its lakes and mountains, wild animals and flowers, its moody seas and skies have for decades lit up his poetry. Now they overflow into Angel Hill, his exuberant new collection. In addition, Longley has been exploring Lochalsh in the Western Highlands where his daughter the painter Sarah Longley now lives ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781911214083
SKU
V9781911214083
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Ref
99-99
About Michael Longley
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 ten 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 ... Read more
Reviews for Angel Hill
Michael Longley's Angel Hill...is at once elegiac and celebratory, and achingly beautiful. Longley has honed his poetry to the bone, but how the bone does shine.
John Banville
Guardian, Books of the Year
There are few contemporary poets as likeable as Michael Longley. That's not because his poems are simply amiable, but because he looks ... Read more
John Banville
Guardian, Books of the Year
There are few contemporary poets as likeable as Michael Longley. That's not because his poems are simply amiable, but because he looks ... Read more