Ash Keys: New Selected Poems - Couverture souple

Longley, Michael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1787334856 ISBN 13 : 9781787334854

Editeur : Jonathan Cape, 2025

Synopsis

A collection of Michael Longley's greatest poems, spanning an extraordinary career of sixty years as one of the Belfast triumverate, alongside Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon

'One of the world's greats' IRISH NEWS

'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 range as a lyric poet.

It shows how his themes, genres and forms have evolved and interlaced since the 1960s. Love, violence, the natural world, art, psychodrama, family, the Great War, the Homeric past and Northern Ireland’s troubled present cohabit in these pages – as do depth, wit and beauty.

'His work is of the level that would be befitting of a Novel Prize for Literature' MICHAEL D HIGGINS

'Michael Longley’s latest lines are just as restless and as promising as his first' Times Literary Supplement

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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 2003 the Wilfred Owen Award. He was appointed CBE in 2010, and from 2007 to 2010 was Ireland Professor of Poetry. In 2017 he received the PEN Pinter Prize, and in 2018 the inaugural Yakamochi Medal.

In 2015 he was made a Freeman of the City of Belfast, where he lived and worked with his wife, the critic Edna Longley, until his death in 2025. For his lifetime achievement in poetry he was awarded the 2022 Feltrinelli Poetry Prize, and in 2024 the International Roma Prize.

Paul Muldoon (Foreword By)
Paul Muldoon is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of fourteen full-length collections of poetry, including Howdie-Skelp.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Jonathan Cape
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1787334856
• ISBN 13: 9781787334854
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208
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• Personne responsable: non disponible