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Michael Longley | |
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 Longley reading his poetry in 2012 | |
| Born | 27 July 1939 Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| Died | 22 January 2025 (aged 85) |
| Education | Royal Belfast Academical Institution |
| Alma mater | Trinity College Dublin (TCD) |
| Notable awards | Whitbread Poetry Prize T. S. Eliot Prize Hawthornden Prize |
Michael Longley CBE (27 July 1939 – 22 January 2025) was a Northern Irish poet. Following his death, the President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, called Longley "a peerless poet".[1] Longley said in later years: "It's a mystery where poems come from. If I knew where poems came from I would go there ... When I write a poem I am moving into unknown territory and hoping to be surprised by some kind of redemptive eloquence to cast light into dark corners".[2]
- ^ "Poet Michael Longley dies aged 85". BBC News. 23 January 2025. Retrieved 23 January 2025.
- ^ Michael Longley, 'Michael Longley - Where Poems Come From' (00:02 and 02:10). BBC Northern Ireland, 11 February 2024. Retrieved 28 January 2025