- Published: 15 October 2007
- ISBN: 9780224080446
- Imprint: Jonathan Cape
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 368
- RRP: $42.99
Collected Poems
- Published: 15 October 2007
- ISBN: 9780224080446
- Imprint: Jonathan Cape
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 368
- RRP: $42.99
Collected Poems is vital...and reminds us that Longley is not only a lyric poet of the first rank, but a clear-sighted observer who knows the real world when he sees it, even as he knows that it cannot be grasped, only celebrated, or interrogated, or mourned - which is to say, given its due - as it passes
John Burnside, Irish Times
A wonderfully capacious book, at once stringent and delicate
Andrew Motion, Observer Books of the Year
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 Keane, The Times
Michael Longley's Collected Poems delineate a 40-year achievement whose scale can now be appreciated
Roy Foster, Irish Times Books of the Year
Michael Longley's Collected Poems brings together in one beautifully designed volume the work of this marvellous poet, reminding us, if we needed reminding, of the authority of his voice and the beauty of his line
John Banville, Irish Times Books of the Year
[A] gravely beautiful book - the record of four decades of a practice which has helped keep lyric poetry in English both necessary and alive
Fiona Sampson, Poetry Review
In his truest and most enduring poems, Longley manages, in Yeats' 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
An essential book for anyone interested in poetry
Times Literary Supplement
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