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Michael Longley

September 2020

  • An angler removes a hook from the mouth of a fish

    The best recent poetry – review roundup

    The Candelight Master by Michael Longley; Just Us by Claudia Rankine; FURY by David Morley; Tiger Girl by Pascale Petit

April 2019

  • Ladybird in flight

    Into thin air: Carol Ann Duffy presents poems about our vanishing insect world

    To mark the end of her poet laureateship, Duffy introduces new poems celebrating the beauty and variety of an insect world facing extinction by Alice Oswald, Daljit Nagra, Paul Muldoon and more

June 2017

  • Gordon Highlanders during the first world war, 1916

    Angel Hill by Michael Longley review – elegies on conflict, grief and nature

  • Michael Longley.

    Michael Longley heads shortlist for Forward prizes for poetry

November 2015

  • Climete change poems : Climate change poems (from left to right): Jeremy Irons, Tamsin Greig , Gabriel Byrne, Kelly Macdonald and James Franco

    Keep it in the ground: a poem a day
    'Our melting, shifting, liquid world': celebrities read poems on climate change

    Actors including James Franco, Ruth Wilson, Gabriel Byrne, Maxine Peake, Jeremy Irons, Kelly Macdonald and Michael Sheen read a series of 21 poems on the theme of climate change, curated by UK poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy. Includes two bonus poems from Byrne and Franco

January 2015

  • David Harsent

    David Harsent wins TS Eliot prize for poetry for Fire Songs

    Creative writing professor takes home £20,000 prize for his 11th collection of work after four previous appearances on shortlist

August 2014

  • Carrigskeewaun

    The Saturday poem
    The Saturday Poem: The Birthday

  • michael longley poet

    The Stairwell review – Michael Longley's shortcuts to the heart

November 2013

  • Illustration by Clifford Harper/Agraphia.co.uk

    Selected Poems by Robert Graves – review

    The greatness of Robert Graves, one of the outstanding poetic voices of the 20th century, was forged in the first world war, says Fran Brearton

October 2013

  • Michael Longley

    Poems on war: Michael Longley is inspired by Tom McAlindon

    Michael Longley writes new poem "Boy-Soldier" in response to a letter Tom McAlindon wrote about the death of a teenage soldier

September 2012

  • Harry Chambers

    Harry Chambers obituary

    Founder and director of the publisher Peterloo Poets

April 2012

  • Jubilee streetparty

    Sixty years in poems

    Carol Ann Duffy invites leading poets to recall a year in verse

July 2011

  • Forward prize for poetry shortlist

    Books blog
    Forward poetry prize: who got rid of the women?

    Sarah Crown: The all-male shortlist for this year's prize is sadly true to form. But apportioning blame is not easy

June 2011

  • The city of Edinburgh by night

    Edinburgh book festival highlights

    From fiction to poetry to children's illustrators, here is the pick of the events at the festival this year

April 2011

  • Illustration of wedding group by Posy Simmonds

    Poems for a wedding

  • Illustration by Clifford Harper/agraphia.co.uk

    A Hundred Doors by Michael Longley – review

February 2011

  • Photo of Fats Waller

    My hero
    Fats Waller by Michael Longley

    'Fats must be one of the most musical human beings ever to have lived'

December 2010

  • carol singers in snow

    Carols for Christmas

    Carol Ann Duffy introduces sparkling new poems for carols, from, among others, Fleur Adcock, John Agard, Gillian Clarke, Maura Dooley, Ian Duhig, Ruth Fainlight, James Harpur, Frieda Hughes, Jackie Kay, Michael Longley, Grace Nichols, Sean O'Brien, Alice Oswald, Brian Patten, Michael Symmons Roberts and Kit Wright

July 2009

  • Robert McCrum on books
    Poet who said 'pants' to the peace process

    Robert McCrum: Michael Longley, the great Belfast poet, is celebrating his 70th this month

March 2009

  • A barn swallow feeds its hatch of young with a fly

    Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    Poem of the week: Persephone

    Carol Rumens: This week, Michael Longley's Persephone, a poem about spring that is also a parable of creativity

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