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The Ghost Orchid Paperback - 1996

by Michael Longley

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Following the remarkable riches of Gorse Fires, the poems brought together under the title The Ghost Orchid share some of the same concerns, but take many different approaches. Whether in the west of Ireland, Sissinghurst or the stone gardens of Japan; whether confronting the blood of The Iliad or The Odyssey or undergoing "Ovidian metamorphoses;" whether testing poetic form or renewing Ulster Scots dialect, Longley speaks with pared delicacy, passion and vulnerability about love, life and death. A lyric craftsman of genius, Michael Longley has written a book that is fragile and exquisite--like the evanescent ghost orchid itself--yet full of tragic intensity; it is his finest achievement.

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  • Title The Ghost Orchid
  • Author Michael Longley
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 75
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wake Forest University Press
  • Publication date 1996-12
  • ISBN 9780916390723 / 0916390721
  • Weight 0.3 lbs (0.14 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.04 x 6.82 x 0.26 in (20.42 x 17.32 x 0.66 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Category Poetry
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 95062042
  • Dewey Decimal Code 821.914

About the author

Michael Longley was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1939. He was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and studied Classics at Trinity College. Strongly influenced by the classics, he has alluded to his love of Homer in many of his poems. Early in his career, Longley worked as a schoolteacher in Dublin, London, and Belfast. He founded the literary program in the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, and in 1970 he became the assistant director of that organization. In 2010, he was honored with the title of Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of Aosdna, an affiliation for Irish artists. He is married to the critic Edna Longley and has three children. Michael Longley has written nine collections of poetry. Holding honorary doctorates from both Trinity College, Dublin, and Queen's University, Belfast, Longley was awarded the prestigious Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2001. He has received numerous other awards for his work, including the American Irish Foundation Award, the T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize, the Whitbread Prize, the Hawthornden Prize, the International Griffin Poetry Prize, and the Ulster Tatler Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015. He served as the Ireland Professor of Poetry from 2007-2010.

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