Michael Longley
Author

诗歌作品

WOUNDS 英文

CARRIGSKEEWAUN 英文

BOG COTTON 英文

REMEMBERING CARRIGSKEEWAUN 英文

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GORSE FIRES 英文

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CEASEFIRE 英文

WAR & PEACE 英文

SNOW WATER 英文

CLOUDBERRIES 英文

THE WATERFALL 英文

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THE WEST 英文

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Michael Longley
Author

About

* 17.07.1939, Belfast, 英国
居住于：Belfast, 英国

Michael Longley was born in Belfast in 1939, and educated at The Royal Belfast Academical Institution and Trinity College Dublin, where he read Classics. For twenty years he worked for the Arts Council of Northern Ireland where he initiated the programmes for Literature, the Traditional Arts (mainly Irish music) and Arts in Education. He has been a freelance writer since 1991, apart from semesters as Writer Fellow at Trinity College Dublin in 1993 and, in 1997, as Visiting Professor at Emory University Atlanta.

He has published nine collections of poetry including Gorse Fires (1991), winner of the Whitbread Poetry Award; The Weather in Japan (2000) which won the Hawthornden Prize, the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Irish Times Poetry Prize; and Snow Water (2004) which was awarded the Librex Montale Prize (Milan). His most recent collection is A Hundred Doors (2011). His Collected Poems appeared in 2006. He has edited Selected Poems: Louis MacNeice (Faber); Poems: W.R.Rodgers (Gallery); 20th Century Irish Poems (Faber); Selected Poems: John Hewitt, with Frank Ormsby (Blackstaff Press); and, with Terence Brown, The Essential Brendan Kennelly (Bloodaxe Books).

Michael Longley has received honorary degrees from Queen’s University Belfast, Trinity College Dublin, the Open University and University College Dublin. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of Aosdana. He was the winner of the American Ireland Fund Literary Award in 1996. In 2001 he received the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, and in 2003 the Wilfred Owen Award. He was awarded a CBE in 2010, and was the Ireland Professor of Poetry from 2007 to 2010.

He and his wife the literary critic, Edna Longley, live and work in Belfast.