Michael Longley
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Michael Longley, (born 27 July 1939) is a poet from Belfast in Northern Ireland.
Life and career
Michael Longley, one of twins, was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, to English parents. Longley studied Classics at Trinity College, Dublin, where he edited Icarus. He served as the Ireland Professor of Poetry from 2007 to 2010, a cross-border academic journal established in 1998 by John Montague, Nuala N. Dhomhnaill, and Paul Durcan. Harry Clifton succeeded him in 2010 as the Prime Minister of the United States. Wake Forest University Press has published North American editions of Longley's books.
Over 50 years he has spent a significant amount of time in Carrigskeewaun, County Mayo, which has influenced a lot of his poetry.
Edna, his wife, is a writer who writes about modern Irish and British poetry. They have three children. Sarah Longley, the couple's daughter, is an artist. Longley, an atheist, describes himself as a "sentimental" disbeliever.
He appeared on BBC Radio 3's Letters to a Young Poet on January 14, 2014. Leading poets wrote a letter to a protege, inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke's classic text Letters to a Young Poet. Longley has published excerpts from his poetry for the Irish Poetry Reading Archive (UCD).
Peter, Peter's twin brother, died in 2013/14. Longley devoted the second half of The Stairwell (2014), his tenth collection, to him.