Snow Water

Michael Longley

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JONATHAN CAPE
15 March 2004

An exquisite collection from 'one of the finest lyric poets of our century' (John Burnside).

By the winner of the T.S.

Eliot Prize, the Whitbread Prize, the Hawthornden Prize and the Irish Times Poetry. Prize

The poems collected in Snow Water find their gravity and centre in Michael Longley's adopted home in west Mayo, but range widely in their attention - from ancient Greece to Paris and Pisa, from Central Park to the trenches of the Somme. Meditations on nature and mortality, there is a depth and delicacy to these poems, a state of lucid wonder, that allows for the easy companionship of love poem and elegy, hymns to marriage and friendship and lyric explorations of loss.

Though the embodiment of these themes is often found in the wildlife of Carrigskeewaun and Allaran Point - the plovers and oystercatchers, whooper swans and snow geese, the hares and otters, the marsh marigolds and yellow flags - Snow Water is emphatically a celebration of humanity. These are all, in a way, poems of love and kinship - even the magnificent sequence that links the horrors of the Great War with those of the Trojan War, and with all the wars between.

What Longley says of Edward Thomas might easily be said of him- 'The nature poet turned into a war poet as if/ He could cure death with the rub of a dock leaf'. Full of intensity and grace, tenderness and wisdom, these are poems of deceptive simplicity from a craftsman of international stature.

By: Michael Longley
Imprint: JONATHAN CAPE
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 133mm, Spine: 7mm
Weight: 105g
ISBN: 9780224072571
ISBN 10: 0224072579
Pages: 80
Publication Date: 15 March 2004
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Michael Longley was born in Belfast in 1939, where he now lives. His collections include The Weather in Japan, which won the T. S. Eliot and Hawthornden Prizes, Gorse Fires, which won the Whitbread Prize for Poetry, and The Ghost Orchid, which was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize.