Michael Longley & Leontia Flynn
A poetry reading
Location: Culture Lab, Newcastle University
Time/Date: 8th March 2012, 19:00
Michael Longley is one of the major Irish poets of the last fifty years, bringing an inimitable musical sense to his themes of love, war and the natural world. Born in 1939, he studied Classics at Trinity College Dublin. He has published numerous acclaimed collections.The Weather in Japan won the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2001, and his Collected Poems appeared in 2006. His most recent collection, the delicate and elegiac A Hundred Doors (2011), was shortlisted for the Forward Prize. Michael Longley lives in Belfast and is married to the critic Edna Longley.
Leontia Flynn was born in 1974. One of the leading younger Irish poets, she has published three collections,These Days, which won the 2004 Forward Prize, Drives, and in 2011 Profit and Loss, which is shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot prize. Witty, playful and constantly surprising, Flynn brings and curious and affectionate gaze to the strangeness of the everyday world.
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Published: 24th January 2012