Sidelines: Selected Prose<\/em> in 2017. In 2001 he received the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, and in 2003 the Wilfred Owen Award. He was appointed CBE in 2010, and from 2007 to 2010 was Ireland Professor of Poetry. <\/p>\nIn 2017 he received the PEN Pinter Prize, and in 2018 the inaugural Yakamochi Medal. In 2015 he was made a Freeman of the City of Belfast, where he and his wife the critic Edna Longley live and work. In 2022 he was awarded the prestigious Feltrinelli International Poetry Prize for a lifetime’s achievement. Other awards include the Irish-American Cultural Institute Award and the Eric Gregory Award, which he shared with Derek Mahon in 1965. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a member of Aosd\u00e1na and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.<\/p>\n
His twelfth and most recent poetry collection is The Candlelight Master<\/i> (Jonathan Cape, 2020), and his numerous others include No Continuing City<\/em> (1969), An Exploded View<\/em> (1973), Man lying on a Wall<\/em> (1976), The Echo Gate<\/em> (1979), The Ghost Orchid<\/em> (1995), which was short-listed for the T.S. Eliot Award. Gorse Fires<\/em> won the Whitbread Poetry Prize in 1991, and The Weather in Japan<\/em> won the Irish Times Literature Prize for Poetry, the Hawthornden Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2001. He published an autobiographical work, Tuppeny Stung<\/em>, in 1994, and has edited selections of poems by Louis MacNeice and W.R. Rodgers.<\/p>\nBiography courtesy of Penguin & Ireland Chair of Poetry<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<\/font><\/p>\n
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<\/span>Michael Longley <\/strong>has received many awards for his poetry, among them the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Hawthornden Prize and the Griffin International Prize. His Collected Poems<\/em> was published in 2006, and Sidelines: Selected Prose<\/em> in 2017. In 2001 he received the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, and in 2003 the Wilfred Owen Award. He was appointed CBE in 2010, and from 2007 to 2010 was Ireland Professor of Poetry. <\/p>\n