Michael Longley

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Northern Irish poet (1939-2025)

United Kingdom WritersLived 1939 to 2025 · aged 85

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Michael George Longley was a Northern Irish poet. In his later years Longley observed: "It's a mystery where poems come from. If I knew where poems came from I would go there ...

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Longley reading his poetry at the Corrymeela Peace Center in Ballycastle, Northern Ireland, July 2012

Awards 13

2017PEN Pinter Prize

2014Griffin Poetry Prize

2010Commander of the Order of the British Empire

2004Librex Montale Prize

2004honorary doctorate

2001King’s / Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry

2000T. S. Eliot Prize

2000Hawthornden Prize

1991Cholmondeley Award

1991Costa Book Award for Poetry

1988Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

1966Eric Gregory Award

AWB Vincent Literary Award

Connected to Michael 6

Etel AdnanAlso won Griffin Poetry Prize

Les MurrayAlso won T. S. Eliot Prize

Cathal Ó SearcaighAlso won AWB Vincent Literary Award James FentonAlso won PEN Pinter Prize Timothy MoAlso won Hawthornden Prize Ciaran CarsonAlso won Eric Gregory Award

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Michael George Longley was a Northern Irish poet. In his later years Longley observed: "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". Following his death, the President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, called Longley "a peerless poet".

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