Michael Longley: The Stairwell [2014] paperback Condition:New have let slip many of

have let slip many of their most valuable secrets

Joey plans to spend the summer with her boyfriend Astor at his seemingly perfect family home

The blue flames continue to spread

battling cancer

Michael Longley: The Stairwell [2014] paperback Condition:New have let slip many ofWinner of the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize Shortlisted for the 2014 T. S. Eliot Prize In The Stairwell, his tenth collection, Michael Longley's themes and forms reach a new intensity. The second part of the book is a powerful sequence of elegies for his twin brother, Peter, and the dominant mood elsewhere is elegiac. The title poem begins: 'I have been thinking about the music for my funeral ' The two parts are also linked by Homer. Longley is well known