The Ghost Orchid

Literature & Fiction

michael-longley

Poetry

JONATHAN CAPE.

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 celebratedin Britain and Ireland, but also in the United Statesfor its lyric intensity, metaphysical wit, and thematic and formal range. Includes selections from No Continuing City (1969), An Exploded View (1973), Man Lying on a Wall (1976), The Echo Gate (1979), New Poems, Gorse Fires (1991), and The Ghost Orchid (1995).

Selected Poems

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. Winner of the Irish Times Irish Literature Prize for Poetry, 2001;  Winner of the T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize, 2001; Winner of the Hawthornden Prize, 2000.

The Weather In Japan

The collected poems of Irish poet Michael Longley, spanning the years 1963-1983. Longley's preoccupations as a poet - love, death, nature, art, history - have invariably been intensified by the tragedy of Ulster. The poet's previous poetry collections include "No Continuing City" and "Gorse Fires".

Poems, 1963-83

Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd.

Louis MacNeice was born in Belfast in 1907 and educated at Marlborough and Merton College, Oxford. For most of his working life he was a writer and producer for BBC radio. His death in 1963 was sudden and unexpected.

Louis MacNeice (Poet to Poet)

Faber&Faber

Poets from the North of Ireland

John Montague

Gerald Dawe

JOHN HEWITT

Tom Matthews

Derek, Mahon

Michael Foley

Louis MacNeice

Paul Muldoon

W.R.

James, Simmons

Ciaran. Carson

George Buchanan

Seamus

Roy McFadden

Tom Paulin

William Peskett

Blackstaff Press

Baucis and Philemon: After Ovid

Poet & Printer

Wake Forest University Press

The Slain Birds

Jonathan Cape Ltd.

Book 1838201890

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

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