Michael Longley is unusual not only because he has the courage, in these ironic, post-modern days, to write with an intense lyricism. What is more unusual still is that this lyricism, this music, derives as much from the power and clarity of his thoughts as from the play of the sounds.
“These poems which at first glance may seem small scale, but which always expand our sense of history, be it of ancient Greece, Second World War Germany or Northern Ireland, Longley is a skilled lyric poet of compassion and grace.”
Paul Muldoon
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