But his work wasn’t Homeric in length: “Michael was a miniaturist.” By Joanne Kaufman Michael Longley, the last survivor of a remarkable triumvirate of Northern Irish poets that included ...

After leaving school, Longley taught in Dublin, London and then Belfast, where he became part of the Belfast Group, a loose confederation of poets that included Heaney (who died in 2013) and Mahon ...

Michael Longley, one of Ireland’s leading poets, died on Wednesday night in Belfast’s Royal Victoria Hospital following a short illness. His 13 collections have received many awards ...

Longley’s strain of humour emerged in ‘Mr 10½‘, about a fruity Robert Mapplethorpe photograph, with the poet imagining a cucumber and plums Michael Longley, who has died aged 85, was a poet ...

Tributes have been paid to the acclaimed Belfast-born poet Michael Longley, who has died at the age of 85. The President of Ireland Michael D Higgins said he regarded him "as a peerless poet" and ...

The death of the poet Michael Longley on Jan. 22, 2025, at the age of 85 did not occasion the same volume of obituaries and encomiums as that of his fellow Belfast poet Seamus Heaney in 2013 (at ...

Irish poet Michael Longley has died aged 85. The acclaimed poet was born in Belfast in July 1939 and lived in the city until his death. Mr Longley went to school at Royal Belfast Academical ...

Acclaimed Belfast poet Michael Longley managed to touch the souls of people with just a few words, his funeral has heard. President of Ireland Michael D Higgins was among mourners who joined Mr ...

It is with the deepest sadness that I, like so many others, have learned of the death of Michael Longley. I regarded him as a peerless poet with at least three poetic lives. It is, however ...

Belfast-born writer Michael Longley has been remembered as “one of the greatest poets that Ireland has ever produced” following his death aged 85. Tributes have been paid to the poet ...

Michael Longley, a key figure in contemporary poetry, has died at the age of 85, his publishers at Jonathan Cape have announced. The Northern Irish poet died on 22nd January 2025 in hospital ...