Michael Longley
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Michael George Longley was a Northern Irish poet. In his later years Longley observed: "It's a mystery where poems come from. If I knew where poems came from I would go there... When I write a poem I
Longley reading his poetry in 2012
Longley reading his poetry at the Corrymeela Peace Center in Ballycastle, Northern Ireland, July 2012
Seamus Heaney
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Seamus Justin Heaney was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Among his best-known works is Death of a Naturalist, his first major published volume
Michael Longley
…London and Belfast, he was a director of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland 1970 to 1991. He was part of the Belfast Group of poets that included Seamus Heaney with whom he became close friends, Derek Mahon and Paul Muldoon. His wife, Edna, is a critic on modern Irish and British poetry. They had three children…
Heaney in 1982
Seamus Heaney in 1970
Marie and Seamus Heaney at the Dominican Church, Kraków, Poland, 4 October 1996
The Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, which was officially opened at Queen's University Belfast in 2004