- Published: 31 October 2012
- ISBN: 9781446468562
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 64
A Hundred Doors
- Published: 31 October 2012
- ISBN: 9781446468562
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 64
As Longley moves into hte old age that was so enabling for many of the finest poets and artists - W.B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens and Walt Whitman come to mind first off - his words are moving more gracefully than ever
Poetry Ireland Review
He is a major writer
John Banville
In his truest and most enduring poems, Longley manages, in Yeats's words, to hold justice and reality in a single thought without doing violence to either. The many poems in which Longley succeeds in this aim are among the great poems of our time
David Wheatley, Guardian
Longley's poems count the phenomena of the natural world with the particular deliberate pleasure of a lover's fingers wandering along the bumpy path of the vertebrae
Seamus Heaney
Longley's war poetry can stand comparison with the best of this century
Guardian
Michael Longley is a lyric poet with perfect pitch. His formal elegance seems effortless...he is a master in an old, great tradition
Elaine Feinstein, The Times
Of the modern writers who deal with conflict, I believe Michael Longley, whose father fought in the First World War, is the greatest figure we have. I carry his work with me to the war zones of the world
Fergal Kane, The Times
One of the finest lyric poets of our century
John Burnside