Product Description: This is the first volume in The Poet's Chair series, which will publish the public lectures of the Ireland Professors of Poetry. The Ireland Chair of Poetry was established in 1998 following the award of the Nobel Prize of Literature to Seamus Heaney...read more

Product Description: In The Stairwell, his tenth collection, Michael Longley’s themes and forms reach a new intensity. The second part of the book is a powerful sequence of elegies for his twin brother, Peter, and the dominant mood elsewhere is elegiac...read more

Product Description: The Essential Brendan Kennelly is at turns a lush and jubilant, wintry and harsh collection of poems. It provides a convincing outline of the poet’s growth from an early lyric genius who was sensitive to discordance into the epic poet who, as the editors observe, combined the “note of awe-struck lyricism” with “notes of disgust, fierce satire, sardonic bitterness” and “self-laceration...read more

Product Description: In the spring of 2008, Michael Longley was appointed Ireland Professor of Poetry. His inaugural lecture, published here for the first time, constitutes 'an autobiography in poetry'. He writes movingly and entertainingly about how he discovered poetry and celebrates some of the poems and poets who have mattered to him, from childhood memories of the King James Bible, which saturated his mind with beautiful words, and the discovery in his teens first of Keats, de la Mare and Yeats, and then of living Irish writers such as Patrick Kavanagh and Louis MacNeice...read more

Product Description: In assembling the work of forty years, Longley’s Collected Poems displays a brilliantly sustained achievement, whose depth, beauty, and wit can now be fully appreciated. Longley’s poetry combines intense concentration with remarkable variety...read more

Product Description: The poems collected in Snow Water find their gravity and centre in Michael Longley's adopted home in west Mayo, but range widely in their attention - from ancient Greece to Paris and Pisa, from Central Park to the trenches of the Somme...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The poems in this volume vary widely in length, subject, and setting (from Mayo, to Tuscany, to Japan). With a Zen-like grace, even the briefest poems hurdle logical gaps and sidestep reason to get to truths. The poet’s acute vision is directed outward, and we know him only through the light he casts on the world’s things as he holds them in loving, elegiac frames...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Each two-hour double-cassette is a poetry quartet of four poets reading and talking about their work for thirty minutes.

Product Description: This is Michael Longley’s own selection from thirty years of writing. It reveals the strength and coherence of an extraordinary body of work, which has been celebrated—in Britain and Ireland, but also in the United States—for its lyric intensity, metaphysical wit, and thematic and formal range...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Following the remarkable riches of Gorse Fires, the poems brought together under the title The Ghost Orchid share some of the same concerns, but take many different approaches. Whether in the west of Ireland, Sissinghurst or the stone gardens of Japan; whether confronting the blood of The Iliad or The Odyssey or undergoing “Ovidian metamorphoses;” whether testing poetic form or renewing Ulster Scots dialect, Longley speaks with pared delicacy, passion and vulnerability about love, life and death...read more

Product Description: Gorse Fires is an unusual artistic blend: darkly austere, yet abundant in images, catalogues and syntactical virtuosity. Longley’s versions of Odysseus’ return to Ithaca and ‘Ghetto’ – based on the polish ghettos – epitomize his concern with the meaning of home and family...read more

Product Description: 'I would have a poet able bodied, fond of talking, a reader of the newspapers, capable of pity and laughter, informed in economics, appreciative of women, involved in personal relationships, actively interested in politics, susceptible to physical impressions...read more

Product Description: Poetry collection from Michael Longley.