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Michael Longley, CBE (born 27 July 1939) is a Northern Irish poet from Belfast.
Longley was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and subsequently read Classics at Trinity College, Dublin, where he edited Icarus. He was Professor of Poetry for Ireland from 2007 to 2010, a cross-border academic post set up in 1998, previously held by John Montague, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Paul Durcan. He was succeeded in 2010 by Harry Clifton.
In North America, Michael Longley is published by Wake Forest University Press. His wife Edna Longley is also an influential critic on modern Irish and British poetry.
Gorse Fires (1991) won the Whitbread Poetry Prize. The Weather in Japan (2000) won the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Hawthornden Prize. He holds honorary doctorates from Queen's University Belfast (1995) and Trinity College, Dublin (1999) and was the 2001 recipient of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. Longley was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2010 Birthday Honours. He won a 2011 London Awards for Art and Performance.
Michael Longley - Creative Minds
Michael Longley - Ceasefire
Michael Longley reads from 'The Stairwell'
Poet Michael Longley reads from The Stairwell
W.B.Yeats and Me - A Poets Choice - Michael Longley.
Michael Longley on Inst
badger by Michael Longley
Time-lapse Video of artist Colin Davidson drawing poet Michael longley
Paul Muldoon and Michael Longley at Kilkenny Arts Festival
Poetry Reading Michael Longley October 15, 2013 Boston University
Actors: Iain Glen (actor), Helen Mirren (producer), Chris Gill (editor), Franco Nero (actor), Jean Bourne (miscellaneous crew), Rebecca Eaton (producer), John Kavanagh (actor), Helen Mirren (actress), Michael Maloney (actor), Lesley Manville (actress), Sam Douglas (actor), Lorelei King (actress), Rupert Vansittart (actor), Francis Magee (actor), Tony Rohr (actor),
Plot: From the Irish countryside to London to New York and back again, Maggie reenters the world as a countess and shady art dealer. With her panache and charisma, she finds more than an auction, a rekindled interracial love affair, helpful relatives and a painting of great price. She finds more than she bargained for in the labyrinth and milieu of stolen art.
Keywords: amateur-detective, art, art-collector, art-market, art-theft, auction, blues-music, interracial-relationship, murder, painting