The job has left me with a healthy disregard for what you might call Public Life. I have no desire now to go to receptions, to be seen at gatherings of the great and the good, to stand and be bored to death by men in grey suits.
Michael LongleyFor me the form, the stanzaic shape, is an endorsement, proof that I'm engaged with the Latin or Greek at an original level, that my versions are explorations.
Michael LongleyA good poem is not completely a poem until it has received a critical response that grows out of the poem in an almost biological way.
Michael LongleyMost poets' revisions are disastrous. They buckle and dent what was originally forged at a red-hot heat.
Michael Longley