Michael Longley, who has died aged 85, was a poet whose graceful and careful work made him one of the most cherished writers ...

His 13 collections have received many awards, including the Whitbread Prize, the TS Eliot Prize, the Hawthornden Prize, the Irish Times Poetry Prize and the Griffin International Prize.

He was the last of the great Northern Irish poetry triumvirate. He and his close friends, Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon, were part of a loose, convivial and brilliantly disparate group of young ...

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In an interview with The Irish News in October, Longley still refused to refer to himself as a poet. “You mustn’t take yourself or your work too seriously,” he said. “If someone describes ...

The poet is survived by his wife Edna and children Rebecca, Daniel and Sarah. Hundreds attended his funeral service at All Souls Church in Belfast on Saturday. Mourners included Irish President ...

It has also produced many extraordinary women poets, including Nuala Ní Domhnaill and Eavan Boland. In collaboration with John J. Burns Library at Boston College, the Charitable Irish Society and the ...

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The renowned poet died in hospital at the age of 85 on January 22. Irish President Michael D Higgins arrives for the funeral of poet Michael Longley (Liam McBurney/PA) A representative of ...