In his 75th year, the tenth collection by the greatest living
Northern Irish poet
Winner of the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize
Shortlisted for the 2014 T.S. Eliot Prize
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 and his wife the critic Edna Longley live and work. In 2022 he was awarded the prestigious Feltrinelli International Poetry Prize for a lifetime's achievement.
It is…the warmth in Longley’s writing that marks his poems out,
makes them cherishable. Never forced, that affection is simply
there.
*Observer*
Longley’s 10th collection weaves his classical themes of war,
family and flaura and fauna into measured songs of commemoration
for those he has loved.
*Sunday Times*
A book of tiny, delicately lyrical commemorations and
commendations.
*Tablet*
The Stairwell…is a stupendous collection of quiet beauty and
universal significance.
*Daily Mail*
The book I have loved best, and have gone back to again and
again.
*Evening Standard*
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