Published to coincide with his 85th birthday, Ash Keys looks back on the extraordinary career of the last surviving member of the triumvirate of poets that rose out of 1960s BelfastA master in an old, great tradition THE TIMESA keeper of the artistic estate, a custodian of griefs and wonders SEAMUS HEANEYThe title of Michael Longleys New Selected Poems is taken from his poem Ash Keys. The wingshaped, windborne seeds of the ashtree might be an image for poems in search of their readers. This selection, based on thirteen individual collections, represents Longleys unusual range as a lyric poet.It shows how his themes, genres and forms have evolved and interlaced since the 1960s. Love, violence, the natural world, art, psychodrama, family, the Great War, the Homeric past and Northern Irelands troubled present cohabit in these pages as do depth, wit and beauty. Longleys poems of the west of Ireland, which pivot on Carrigskeewaun, his soul landscape, have also made him a pioneer of ecopoetry.In 2022 Longley was awarded the Feltrinelli Prize for poetry, a major international prize. Announcing the award, the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome stressed the contemporary relevance of his themes and their cultural implications, and said Longley is an extraordinary poet of landscape, particularly of the Irish West, which he observes with the delicate and passionate attention of an ecologist, and a tragic singer of Ireland and its dramatic history. But he has also addressed the seduction,...

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