Angel Hill

Michael Longley

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English

JONATHAN CAPE
15 June 2017

Poetry; Poetry by individual poets

A Guardian / Herald Scotland Book of the Year

'A keeper of the artistic estate, a custodian of griefs and wonders' Seamus Heaney

Winner of the 2017 PEN Pinter prize

Shortlisted for the 2017 Forward Prize

A Guardian / Herald Scotland Book of the Year

Winner of the 2017 PEN Pinter prize

Shortlisted for the 2017 Forward Prize

A remote townland in County Mayo, Carrigskeewaun has been for nearly fifty years Michael Longley's home-from-home, his soul-landscape. Its lakes and mountains, wild animals and flowers, its moody seas and skies have for decades lit up his poetry. Now they overflow into Angel Hill, his exuberant new collection. In addition, Longley has been exploring Lochalsh in the Western Highlands where his daughter the painter Sarah Longley now lives with her family. She has opened up for him her own soul-landscape with its peculiar shapes and intense colours. In Angel Hill the imaginations of poet and painter intermingle and two exacting wildernesses productively overlap. Love poems and elegies and heart-rending

reflections on the Great War and the Northern Irish Troubles add further weight to Michael Longley's outstanding eleventh collection. Angel Hill will undoubtedly delight this great poet's many admirers.

By: Michael Longley
Imprint: JONATHAN CAPE
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 194mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 100g
ISBN: 9781911214083
ISBN 10: 191121408X
Pages: 80
Publication Date: 15 June 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Michael Longley was born in Belfast in 1939 and educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and Trinity College Dublin where he read Classics. He has published ten collections of poetry including Gorse Fires (1991) which won the Whitbread Poetry Award, and The Weather in Japan (2000) which won the Hawthornden Prize, the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Irish Times Poetry Prize. His Collected Poems was published in 2006. In 2001 he received the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, and in 2003 the Wilfred Owen Award. He was awarded a CBE in 2010. He was Ireland Professor of Poetry, 2007-2010. He and his wife, the critic Edna Longley, live and work in Belfast.

Reviews for Angel Hill

Geographically straddles the west of Ireland and the Highlands of Scotland. Thematically it exults family values... The dead and the living are central to the thoughts of the Irishman now in his late seventies. In Ireland his poems colonise the light that enchants Carrigskeewaun in County Mayo... The pleasure of reviewing becomes a privilege when presented with poets and poetry of this quality. -- Hayden Murphy Herald Scotland