The Candlelight Master by Michael Longley Harvard University Press short-listed for the T

short-listed for the T

His poems are always experimenting with impression and expression

‘Didsbury’s is the kind of work which makes you realise what you’ve been putting up with in the meantime

Located in a menacing

Tchicaya U Tam'si

The Candlelight Master by Michael Longley Harvard University Press short-listed for the TI cant bear the thought of a world without Michael Longley, yet his poetry keeps hurtling towards that fact more and more urgently as it stretches in an unflinching way beyond comfort or certainty. So wrote Maria Johnston, reviewing Longleys previous book Angel Hill. Yet The Candlelight Master does not only face into shadows. The title poem sums up the chiaroscuro of this collection, named after a mysterious Baroque painter. Other poems about painters