- Published: 15 November 2009
- ISBN: 9780224090032
- Imprint: Jonathan Cape
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 64
- RRP: $27.99
Gorse Fires
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- Published: 15 November 2009
- ISBN: 9780224090032
- Imprint: Jonathan Cape
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 64
- RRP: $27.99
. . . a contemporary who should endure over the life of our language
Donald Hall
One of the finest lyric poets of our century
John Burnside
Longley may not possess, or want, the international glamour of some of his contemporaries, but the poems in Gorse Fires, both individually and collectively, bewitch with the magic of coherence
Carol Ann Duffy, Guardian
A keeper of the artistic estate, a custodian of griefs and wonders
Seamus Heaney