LONGLEY MICHAEL

(P/B) THE SLAIN BIRDS
Michael Longley's new collection takes its title from Dylan Thomas - 'for the sake of the souls of the slain birds sailing'. The Slain Birds encompasses souls, slayings and many birds, both dead and alive. The first poem laments a tawny owl killed by a car. That owl reappears later in 'Totem', which represents the book itself as 'a star-surrounded totem pole/ With carvings of all the creatures'. 'Slain birds' exemplify our impact on the creatures and the planet. But, in this book's cosmic ecological scheme, birds are predators too, and cor...
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ΤΟ ΧΤΑΠΟΔΙ ΤΟΥ ΟΜΗΡΟΥ ΚΑΙ ΑΛΛΑ ΠΟΙΗΜΑΤΑ (ΔΙΓΛΩΣΣΗ ΕΚΔΟΣΗ)
Μέσα στο ατελείωτο τσιμεντένιο χάος του Σάο Πάουλο Βρήκα σ' ένα όνειρο τη μορφή σου πάλι, όμως πλεγμένη Με φύλλα μπανανιάς και βραζιλιάνικη σιωπή Απ' τους Ινδιάνους Γουεϊάνα, λες και θα κρατούσε για πάντα. [Από την έκδοση]...
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(P/B) THE STAIRWELL
In The Stairwell, his tenth collection, Michael Longley's themes and forms reach a new intensity. The second part of the book is a powerful sequence of elegies for his twin brother, Peter, and the dominant mood elsewhere is elegiac. The title poem begins: 'I have been thinking about the music for my funeral ...' The two parts are also linked by Homer. Longley is well-known for his Homeric versions, and the Iliad is a presiding presence - both in poems about the Great War and in the range of imagery that gives his twin's death a mythic dime...
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