The Poetry of Michael Longley

by Alan J. Peacock; Kathleen Devine

• ISBN13: 9780861404124
• ISBN10: 0861404122
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-04-12
• Publisher: Colin Smythe Ltd

Summary

Micheal Longley's status as a poet resident in Belfast throughout the "Troubles" has been of talismanic importance over the last three decades. This volume, the first book devoted entirely to Longley's work, brings together a number of experts on Longley and Irish poetry in general--Michael Allen, Terence Brown, Neil Corcoran, Douglas Dunn, Elmer Kennedy-Andrews, Peter McDonald, Alan Peacock, and Robert Welch. Through a variety of thematic, contextual and technial approaches it examines the whole of his career up to and including his latest volume, The Weather in Japan (2000).

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	vi
Introduction	ix
Alan J. Peacock
Acknowledgements	xxii
Michael Longley and the Irish Poetic Tradition	1	(12)
Terence Brown
Longley's Metric	13	(22)
Douglas Dunn
Lapsed Classics: Homer, Ovid, and Michael Longley's Poetry	35	(16)
Peter McDonald
Michael Longley and The West	51	(22)
Robert Welch
Conflict, Violence and `The Fundamental Interrelatedness of all Things' in the Poetry of Michael Longley	73	(28)
Elmer Kennedy-Andrews
My Botanical Studies: The Poetry of Natural History in Michael Longley	101	(20)
Neil Corcoran
Longley's Long Line: Looking Back from The Ghost Orchid	121	(22)
Michael Allen
`How do you Sew the Night?': The Weather in Japan	143	(26)
Alan J. Peacock
Etruria	169	(2)
Michael Longley
Notes	171	(10)
Notes on Contributors	181	(2)
Index	183