Michael Longley

Michael Longley is a native of Belfast and has served as Professor of Poetry for Ireland. His Gorse Fires won the Whitbread Poetry Prize in 1991, and The Weather in Japan received both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Hawthornden Prize. The most widely known of his two dozen collections of poetry include The Ghost Orchid and Snow Water, and his newest volume is Sea Asters (Andrew J. Moorhouse, 2015).  "The Camp-Fires" was first published in the U.S. in Shenandoah 45/4.