EPISODE · Nov 20, 2024 · 50 MIN
Michael Longley in conversation with Olivia O'Leary, Dublin Book Festival 2024
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dlr Libraries were pleased to partner with Dublin Book Festival and host three events showcasing some of the best writing Ireland has to offer. Join Michael Longley in conversation with journalist and writer Olivia O’Leary. Michael Longley’s Ash Keys: New Selected Poems (Jonathan Cape) looks back on his extraordinary career, showing how his themes, genres and forms have evolved and interlaced since the 1960s. Love, violence, the natural world, art, psychodrama, family, the Great War, the Homeric past and Northern Ireland’s troubled present cohabit in these pages – as do depth, wit and beauty.
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dlr Libraries were pleased to partner with Dublin Book Festival and host three events showcasing some of the best writing Ireland has to offer. Join Michael Longley in conversation with journalist and writer Olivia O’Leary. Michael Longley’s Ash Keys: New Selected Poems (Jonathan Cape) looks back on his extraordinary career, showing how his themes, genres and forms have evolved and interlaced since the 1960s. Love, violence, the natural world, art, psychodrama, family, the Great War, the Homeric past and Northern Ireland’s troubled present cohabit in these pages – as do depth, wit and beauty.
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Michael Longley in conversation with Olivia O'Leary, Dublin Book Festival 2024
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