Michael Longley
Michael Longley was born in Belfast in 1939.
His books of poetry include No Continuing City
(London, Macmillan, 1969, US Dufour Editions 1969); An Exploded View (London, Victor Gollancz, 1973), Man Lying on
a Wall (Victor Gollancz, 1976); The Echo Gate (London, Secker and Warburg, 1979);
Poems 1963-1983 (U.K., Salamander Press; Loughcrew, Ireland, The Gallery Press,
1985); Poems 1963-1980 (US, Wake Forest University Press, 1981); Gorse Fires (Secker & Warburg, Wake
Forest Press, 1991), for which he was awarded the 1991 Whitbread Prize for
Poetry;
The Ghost Orchid (London Jonathan Cape, 1995; Wake Forest University Press, 1996); Broken Dishes (Belfast, The Lagan Press, 1998); Selected Poems (Jonathan Cape, 1998/Wake Forest University Press, 1998); The Weather in Japan (Jonathan Cape, 2000/Wake Forest University Press, 2000), for which he recieved the 2001 Irish Times Irish Literature Prize for Poetry; Snow Water (Jonathan Cape, 2004); and Collected Poems (Jonathan Cape, 2006/US, Wake Forest University Press, 2007).
He has also published an
autobiographical work, Tuppeny Stung (Belfast, Lagan Press, 1994).
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a member of
Aosdána, and of the Cultural Traditions Group,
which promotes acceptance and understanding of cultural diversity in
Northern Ireland. He lives in
Belfast.
