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Michael Longley: Poems with Classical referents

Poet: Michael Longley              Poems with Classical referents – listed by Volume Publication

 (Page numbers given refer to Collected Poems,  [CP], London: Cape, 2006)

No  Continuing City: Poems 1963-1968

London: Macmillan, 1969

 CP

Epithalamion

 

3

Odyssey

 

14-15

Nausicaa

 

15

Circe

 

18

Narcissus

 

19

The Centaurs

 

20-1

Persephone

 

21

A Working Holiday

 

26

An Exploded View: Poems 1968-1972

Gollancz, 1973

 

Lares

 

41

To Three Irish Poets

 

53-9

Altera Cithera

 

74

An Image from Propertius

 

80

Man Lying on a Wall

Gollancz, 1976

 

Ars Poetica

 

108-9

The Echo Gate: Poems 1975-79

Secker & Warburg, 1979

 

Metamorphoses

 

140

Peace: After Tibullus

 

134-6

Sulpicia

 

137-8

Gorse Fires

Secker & Warburg, 1991

 

Homecoming

 

171

Mercury

 

171

Tree House

 

177

The Butchers

 

182

Laertes

 

182

Anticleia

 

183

Eurycleia

 

184

Argos

 

190

The Ghost Orchid

Cape, 1995

 

After Horace

 

199

Perdix

 Orig. pub. Faber 1994, eds Hoffman & Lasdun After Ovid

201

According to Pythagoras

 Orig. pub. Faber 1994, eds Hoffman & Lasdun After Ovid

202

A Flowering

 Orig. pub. Faber 1994, eds Hoffman & Lasdun After Ovid

205

Spiderwoman

 Orig. pub. Faber 1994, eds Hoffman & Lasdun After Ovid

205

Ivory and Water

 Orig. pub. Faber 1994, eds Hoffman & Lasdun After Ovid

206

Baucis and Philemon

 Orig. pub. Faber 1994, eds Hoffman & Lasdun After Ovid

212

Phoenix

 Orig. pub. Faber 1994, eds Hoffman & Lasdun After Ovid

220

Akrotin

 

221

A Bed of Leaves

 

222

The Camp-Fires

 

224

Ceasefire

 

225

The Helmet

 

226

The Parting

 

226

Phemios and Medon

 

229

Cavafy's Desire

 

230

Homer's Octopus

 

230

The Oar

 

239

 

 

 

The Weather in Japan

Cape, 2000

 

In the Iliad

 

250

Damiana

 

251

Heartsease

 

251

The Parody

 

252

The Vision of Theoclymenus

 

252

A Linen Handkerchief

 

254

A Poppy

(and in Broken Dishes, Abbey Press, 1998)

255

The Bullet Hole

 

259

The Horses

 

260

The Evening Star

(and in Broken Dishes, Abbey Press, 1998)

263

The Snow Leopard

(and in Broken Dishes, Abbey Press, 1998)

264

Paper Boats

 

273

Remembering the Poets

 

280

The Beech Tree

 

281

The Garden

 

283

 

 

 

Snow Water

Cape, 2004

 

Interview

 

310

War & Peace

 

310

Sleep & Death

 

311

Corinna

 

320

Praxille

 

320

The Group

 

321-22

 

 

 

Other

 

 

Old Soldiers

TLS 1 January 2005