Longley, Michael [Brearton, Fran].

Reading Michael Longley.

First Edition. Tarset, Bloodaxe, 2006. Octavo. 285 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Cover painting by Peter Edwards. Chronological reading of the poet’s work.

Fran Brearton is lecturer in English at Queen’s University Belfast. Her study The Great War in Irish Poetrywas published by Oxford University Press in 2000, and she co-edited Last before America: Irish and American Writing (Blackstaff, 2001). She was the 2004 British Academy Chatterton Lecturer on English Poetry. Michael Longley, CBE (born 27 July 1939) is a poet from Belfast in Northern Ireland. Born in Belfast, Longley was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution, and subsequently read Classics at Trinity College, Dublin, where he edited Icarus.He was Professor of Poetry for Ireland from 2007 to 2010, a cross-border academic post set up in 1998, previously held by John Montague, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Paul Durcan. His wife, Edna Longley, is a critic on modern Irish and British poetry. They have three children. (Wikipedia).

• Keywords: From the Archive / Library of John and Hilary Wakeman [Poetry Magazine THE SHOP] · John & Hilary Wakeman Poetry Collection · Library & Collection Building · Poetry – Rare · Wakeman Poetry Collection & Archive
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9781852246839
• Inventory Number: 43544AB