AGuardian/Herald ScotlandBook of the Year Winner of the 2017 PEN Pinter prize Shortlisted for the 2017 Forward Prize

A remote townland in County Mayo, Carrigskeewaun has been for nearly fifty years Michael Longleys home-from-home, his soul-landscape. Its lakes and mountains, wild animals and flowers, its moody seas and skies have for decades lit up his poetry. Now they overflow intoAngel Hill, his exuberant new collection. In addition, Longley has been exploring Lochalsh in the Western Highlands where his daughter the painter Sarah Longley now lives with her family. She has opened up for him her own soul-landscape with its peculiar shapes and intense colours. InAngel Hillthe imaginations of poet and painter intermingle and two exacting wildernesses productively overlap. Love poems and elegies and heart-rending reflections on the Great War and the Northern Irish Troubles add further weight to Michael Longleys outstanding eleventh collection.Angel Hillwill undoubtedly delight this great poets many admirers.

Michael Longley was born in Belfast in 1939 and educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and Trinity College Dublin where he read Classics. He has published ten collections of poetry includingGorse Fires(1991) which won the Whitbread Poetry Award, andThe Weather in Japan(2000) which won the Hawthornden Prize, the T. S. Eliot Prize and theIrish TimesPoetry Prize. HisCollected Poemswas published in 2006. In 2001 he received the Queens Gold Medal for Poetry, and in 2003 the Wilfred Owen Award. He was awarded a CBE in 2010. He was Ireland Professor of Poetry, 20072010. He and his wife, the critic Edna Longley, live and work in Belfast.