But this came against the backdrop of the Troubles in Northern Ireland – his first poems appeared in the early 1970s – and along with friends and contemporaries such as Seamus Heaney and Derek ...
Michael Longley, who has died aged 85, was a poet whose graceful and careful work made him one of the most cherished writers in Northern Ireland and, for some, the English-reading world. Longley’s ...
Belfast-born writer Michael Longley has been remembered as “one of the greatest poets that Ireland has ever produced” following his death aged 85. Tributes have been paid to the poet, described as ...