- Published: 29 November 2022
- ISBN: 9781787333901
- Imprint: Jonathan Cape
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 96
- RRP: $37.00
The Slain Birds
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- Published: 29 November 2022
- ISBN: 9781787333901
- Imprint: Jonathan Cape
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 96
- RRP: $37.00
One of the most perfect poets alive. There is something in his work both ancient and modern. I read him as I might check the sky for stars.
Sebastian Barry
Michael Longley's poems have matched a sense of history and the brutal present with a recurrent feeling for the lyrical moment and the fragility of experience.
James Fenton
A contemporary who should endure over the life of our language.
Donald Hall
Using ornithology as a guide, Longley's exhilarating songbook offers a risk assessment of our world under threat... The Slain Birds is a book of quietude and disquiet in Longley's prolific repertoire.
Guardian
[Longley] at 83 is so secure as a great he can write poems of simple, pellucid beauty, touching universal experience.
Daily Mail