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Ash Keys: New Selected Poems
Michael Longley
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Description for Ash Keys: New Selected Poems
Hardcover.
Published to coincide with his 85th birthday, Ash Keys looks back on the extraordinary career of the last surviving member of the triumvirate of poets that rose out of 1960s Belfast
'A master in an old, great tradition' THE TIMES
'A keeper of the artistic estate, a custodian of griefs and wonders' SEAMUS HEANEY
The title of Michael Longley’s New Selected Poems is taken from his poem ‘Ash Keys’. The wing-shaped, wind-borne seeds of the ash-tree might be an image for poems in search of their readers. This selection, based on thirteen individual collections, represents Longley’s unusual ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2024
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781787334847
SKU
9781787334847
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About Michael Longley
Michael Longley (Author) Michael Longley’s thirteen collections have received many awards, among them the Whitbread Prize, the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Hawthornden Prize, the Irish Times Poetry Prize and the Griffin International Prize. His Collected Poems was published in 2006, and Sidelines: Selected Prose in 2017. In 2001 he received the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, and in ... Read more
Reviews for Ash Keys: New Selected Poems
Michael Longley is a lyric poet with perfect pitch. His formal elegance seems effortless... A master in an old, great tradition
Times
A keeper of the artistic estate, a custodian of griefs and wonders
Seamus Heaney, author of Death of a Naturalist His poems rest on the page like driftwood, seasoned and made beautiful by an ocean ... Read more
Times
A keeper of the artistic estate, a custodian of griefs and wonders
Seamus Heaney, author of Death of a Naturalist His poems rest on the page like driftwood, seasoned and made beautiful by an ocean ... Read more