MICHAEL LONGLEY

Michael Longley has long been acknowledged as one of our greatest living poets: Seamus Heaney once described him as ‘a keeper of the artistic estate, a custodian of griefs and wonders’.
Among Michael’s awards and prizes are the Whitbread Award, the TS Eliot Prize and the Irish Times Now Poetry Award. He received the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2001, and in 2003 the Wilfred Owen Award.
In 2010 he was appointed a CBE. He has published ten collections of poems, the latest of which, ‘The Stairwell’, has been shortlisted for the 2014 TS Eliot Prize.
“Michael Longley … one of the finest lyric poets of our century.” John Burnside