A Hundred Doors

"One of the finest lyric poets of our century" -- John Burnside "Michael Longley is a lyric poet with perfect pitch. His formal elegance seems effortless...he is a master in an old, great tradition" -- Elaine Feinstein The Times "In his truest and most enduring poems, Longley manages, in Yeats's words, to hold justice and reality in a single thought without doing violence to either. The many poems in which Longley succeeds in this aim are among the great poems of our time" -- David Wheatley Guardian "Longley's war poetry can stand comparison with the best of this century" Guardian "Longley's poems count the phenomena of the natural world with the particular deliberate pleasure of a lover's fingers wandering along the bumpy path of the vertebrae" -- Seamus Heaney