Ash Keys by Michael Longley John Kinsella are small prayers uttered out

are small prayers uttered out of an ambiguous faith

and a Pile of Yarn:

It will show children how speaking a poem aloud has a certain magic

and is haunted by their correspondences and echoes

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Ash Keys by Michael Longley John Kinsella are small prayers uttered outPublished 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 Belfast'A master in an old, great tradition' THE TIMES'A 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 wing shaped, wind borne seeds of the ash tree might be an