“Ceasefire,” his most famous poem, invoked the “Iliad” in exploring his country’s sectarian strife. But his work wasn’t Homeric in length: “Michael was a miniaturist.”
Michael Longley, 85, Northern Irish Poet of Nature and ‘the Troubles,’ Dies
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