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Versatile poet's work ranged from nature to civil strife
including Derek Mahon and Brendan Kennelly, that he became immersed in poetry. His death was announced on Thursday at the age of 85. At Trinity he met his future wife Edna - later a professor at ...
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Michael Longley, 85, Northern Irish Poet of Nature and ‘the Troubles,’ Dies
“Ceasefire,” his most famous poem, invoked the “Iliad” in exploring ... Northern Irish poets that included Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon, who was celebrated for the meditative beauty ...