The poetry of Michael Longley

Micheal Longley's status as a poet resident in Belfast throughout the "Troubles" has been of talismanic importance over the last three decades. This volume, the first book devoted entirely to Longley's work, brings together a number of experts on Longley and Irish poetry in general--Michael Allen, Terence Brown, Neil Corcoran, Douglas Dunn, Elmer Kennedy-Andrews, Peter McDonald, Alan Peacock, and Robert Welch. Through a variety of thematic, contextual and technial approaches it examines the whole of his career up to and including his latest volume, The Weather in Japan (2000).