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  • Bobbie Hanvey

Michael Longley

Born:
  • Belfast, Northern Ireland
Publishers:
Agents:
  • LAW (Lucas Alexander Whitley)

Biography

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Critical perspective

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Bibliography

Angel Hill
Sea Asters
The Stairwell
A Hundred Doors
Gorse Fires
A Jovial Hullabaloo
Selected Poems/John Hewitt
Collected Poems
Snow Water
20th Century Irish Poems
The Weather in Japan
Out of the Cold: Drawings and Poems for Christmas
Selected Poems
Broken Dishes
Penguin Modern Poets Volume 13
Ship of the Wind
The Ghost Orchid
Birds and Flowers: Poems
Tuppeny Stung: Autobiographical Chapters
Baucis and Philemon: After Ovid
Selected Poems: W. R. Rodgers
Gorse Fires
Poems 1963-1983
Selected Poems: Louis MacNeice
Poems 1963-1983
Selected Poems
Patchwork
The Echo Gate: Poems 1975-1979
Man Lying on a Wall: Poems 1972-1975
Fishing in the Sky: Love Poems
An Exploded View: Poems 1968-1972
Lares
Under the Moon: Over the Stars
Causeway: The Arts in Ulster
No Continuing City: Poems 1963-1968
Room to Rhyme
Secret Marriages: Nine Short Poems
Three Regional Voices
Ten Poems

Awards

2017
Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection (shortlist)
2015
Ulster Tattler Lifetime Achievement Award
2014
T.S. Eliot Prize (shortlist)
2014
International Griffin Poetry Prize
2012
Poetry Now Award
2012
Forward Poetry Prize for Best Single Poem (shortlist)
2011
London Award for Art and Performance
2011
Forward Poetry Prize for Best Poetry Collection of the Year (shortlist)
2010
CBE
2009
Forward Poetry Prize for Best Single Poem (shortlist)
2004
T. S. Eliot Prize (shortlist)
2001
Irish Times Irish Literature Prize for Poetry
2001
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry
2001
T. S. Eliot Prize
2000
Belfast Arts Award for Literature
2000
Hawthornden Prize
1991
Whitbread Poetry Award
1965
Eric Gregory Award

Author statement

'I live for those moments when language itself takes over the enterprise, and insight races ahead of knowledge. Occasionally I have things to say, or there is something I want to describe. But these are not my main reasons for writing.'