Ash Keys by Michael Longley John Kinsella intensity and substance

intensity and substance

are small prayers uttered out of an ambiguous faith

river life and river folk as a poet and photographer

and is haunted by their correspondences and echoes

In this powerful

Ash Keys by Michael Longley John Kinsella intensity and substancePublished to coincide with his 85th birthday, Ash Keys looks back on the extraordinary career of the last surviving member of the triumvirate of poets that rose out of 1960s Belfast'A master in an old, great tradition' THE TIMES'A keeper of the artistic estate, a custodian of griefs and wonders' SEAMUS HEANEYThe title of Michael Longleys New Selected Poems is taken from his poem Ash Keys. The wing shaped, wind borne seeds of the ash tree might be an