Background
Longley, Michael was born on July 27, 1939 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
(A collection of poetry which uses Ireland for a starting ...)
A collection of poetry which uses Ireland for a starting point or implied focus. It is an Ireland often sighted through disturbing perspectives derived from foreign cultures such as Homer's "Odyssey", World War II and the Holocaust. This is the winner of the 1991 Whitbread Prize for Poetry.
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Longley, Michael was born on July 27, 1939 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Born in Belfast, Longley was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution, and subsequently read Classics at Trinity College, Dublin, where he edited Icarus.
He was Professor of Poetry for Ireland from 2007 to 2010, a cross-border academic post set up in 1998, previously held by John Montague, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Paul Durcan. He was succeeded in 2010 by Harry Clifton. North American editions of Longley"s work are published by Wake Forest University Press.
They have three children.
On 14 January 2014, Longley participated in the British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 3 series "The Essay - Letters to a Young Poet". Taking Rainer Maria Rilke"s classic text, Letters to a Young Poet as inspiration, leading poets wrote a letter to a protege.
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Aosdána.
Married Edna Broderick.