Michael Longley
Michael Longley , CBE (born July 27, 1939 in Belfast ) is a Northern Irish poet .
Life and work
Michael Longley's parents were from London and moved to Belfast in 1927. He has a twin brother, Peter, and a sister, Wendy.
In 1958 he took up a degree in Classical Philology at Trinity College in Dublin , then worked as a teacher in Dublin, London and Belfast. In Belfast in 1964 he came into contact with The Belfast Group , an informal group of poets, which at the time also included Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon . In 1969 he published his first volume of poetry. He has also written for the BBC radio , literary magazine Encounter, and satirical magazine The Phoenix .
His poetry shows influences of classical metrics and classical mythology , but has a historical or contemporary reference. Preferred topics are nature and the Northern Ireland conflict . He received the Whitbread Poetry Award in 1991 , the Hawthornden Prize in 2000 and the TS Eliot Prize in 2001 and the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry . In 2015, The Stairwell (2014) was awarded the Griffin Poetry Prize . In 2017 Longley received the PEN Pinter Prize .
Longley worked for the Arts Council of Northern Ireland from 1970 to 1991, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of Aosdána . He is married and has three children.
He has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2009 .
Works (selection)
- 1969: No Continuing City
- 1973: An Exploded View
- 1976: Man Lying on a Wall
- 1979: The Echo Gate
- 1991: Gorse Fires
- 1995: The Ghost Orchid
- 1998: Broken Dishes
- 2000: The Weather in Japan
- 2004: Snow Water
- 2006: Collected Poems
- 2009: Gorse Fires
- 2011: A Hundred Doors
- Frozen rain . Bilingual edition. Selection of poems and translation by Hans-Christian Oeser and Jürgen Schneider . Edition Lyrik Kabinett at Hanser, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-446-25450-3
literature
- Fran Brearton: Reading Michael Longley . Bloodaxe 2006.
- Neil Corcoran: “To stop the bleeding: the poetry of botany in Michael Longley”, in: Poets of Modern Ireland: Text, Context, Intertext . SIU Press 1999, pp. 156-176.
- Jonathan Hufstader: Tongue of Water, Teeth of Stones: Northern Irish Poetry and Social Violence , UP of Kentucky 1999, pp. 87-110.
- Alan Peackock: “Michael Longley: Poet between Worlds”, in: Michael Kenneally (Ed.): Poetry in Contemporary Irish Literature . Rowman & Littlefield 1995, pp. 263-279
Web links
- Literature by and about Michael Longley in the WorldCat bibliographic database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Longley at poetryarchive.org
- ↑ Biography on TeachNet Ireland ( Memento from March 22, 2003 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b Michael Longley at contemporarywriters.com ( Memento of the original from December 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Michael Longley CBE awarded PEN Pinter Prize 2017 , englishpen.org, June 1, 2017, accessed May 31, 2019
- ↑ マ イ ケ ル の キ ー ワ ー ド 集 ( Memento of the original from September 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Longley, Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Northern Irish poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 27, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Belfast |