Snow Water - Longley, Michael
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In his newest volume, named for the Japanese idea that the best water for tea is melted snow, Michael Longley once again demonstrates that he is one of the best nature poets writing in English. Even in elegies, eulogies, and friendship verse, Longley's ability to find the right natural image with which to communicate his fellow feelings is striking. His subtle ministrations allow us to capture "our own little cumulus of exhalations."

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In his newest volume, named for the Japanese idea that the best water for tea is melted snow, Michael Longley once again demonstrates that he is one of the best nature poets writing in English. Even in elegies, eulogies, and friendship verse, Longley's ability to find the right natural image with which to communicate his fellow feelings is striking. His subtle ministrations allow us to capture "our own little cumulus of exhalations."
Autorenporträt
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 Aosdána, 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.