Michael Longley Ash Keys : New Selected Poems Paperback Book

Michael Longleys last book a collection of his greatest poems, spanning an extraordinary career of sixty years One of the worlds greats IRISH NEWSA keeper of the artistic estate, a custodian of griefs and wonders SEAMUS HEANEYThe title of Michael Longleys New Selected Poems is taken from his poem Ash Keys. The wingshaped, windborne seeds of the ashtree might be an image for poems in search of their readers. This selection, based on thirteen individual collections, represents Longleys unusual range as a lyric poet. It shows how his themes, genres and forms have evolved and interlaced since the 1960s. Love, violence, the natural world, art, psychodrama, family, the Great War, the Homeric past and Northern Irelands troubled present cohabit in these pages as do depth, wit and beauty. His work is of the level that would be befitting of a Novel Prize for Literature MICHAEL D HIGGINSMichael Longleys latest lines are just as restless and as promising as his first Times Literary Supplement | Michael Longley Ash Keys : New Selected Poems Paperback Book