The Candlelight Master
$23.77
- Paperback
80 pages
- Release Date
6 August 2020
Summary
The new book from the greatest living Irish poet.
AN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR
“I can’t bear the thought of a world without Michael Longley, yet his poetry keeps hurtling towards that fact more and more urgently as it stretches in an unflinching way beyond comfort or certainty.” So wrote Maria Johnston, reviewing Longley’s previous book Angel Hill.
Yet The Candlelight Master does not only face into shadows. The title poem sums up the chiaroscuro of this col…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781787332034 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1787332039 |
| Author: | Michael Longley |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Jonathan Cape |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 80 |
| Release Date: | 6 August 2020 |
| Weight: | 114g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 131mm x 7mm |
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Critics Review
Michael Longley’s luminous The Candlelight Master …demonstrate[s] how much poetry matters even in the most terrible of times.
Michael Longley’s luminous The Candlelight Master…demonstrate[s] how much poetry matters even in the most terrible of times. – John Banville * Irish Times Books of the Year *
About The Author
Michael Longley
Michael Longley’s thirteen collections have received many awards, among them the Whitbread Prize, the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Hawthornden Prize, the Irish Times Poetry Prize and the Griffin International Prize. His Collected Poems was published in 2006, and Sidelines- Selected Prose in 2017. In 2001 he received the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, and in 2003 the Wilfred Owen Award. He was appointed CBE in 2010, and from 2007 to 2010 was Ireland Professor of Poetry. In 2017 he received the PEN Pinter Prize, and in 2018 the inaugural Yakamochi Medal.In 2015 he was made a Freeman of the City of Belfast, where he lived and worked with his wife, the critic Edna Longley, until his death in 2025. For his lifetime achievement in poetry he was awarded the 2022 Feltrinelli Poetry Prize, and in 2024 the International Roma Prize.
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