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The Weather in Japan Book
The Weather In Japan is Belfast-born Michael Longley's third new book of poetry in a decade: Gorse Fires (1991) ended a long poetic silence and earned its author the Whitbread Prize for poetry, and the subsequent The Ghost Orchid (1995) affirmed the re-emergence of a singular poetic voice, notable for its density of image and metaphor and at ease with classical allusion. Yet for all that his verse is marked by a patient clarity of perception and rhythmic virtuosity that renders complex ideas with a distilled and careful elegance. Longley places painting and literature alongside the natural world in the constellations by which he steers, and if many of the poems here hint at man's capacity for violence, brutality and chaos, the poet's sure guide is the brief illumination afforded by the … read more...
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