The Stairwell by Michael Longley
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ISBN: 9780224101684
Jonathan Cape, 14 August 2014
Paperback, 80 pages
Winner of the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize and shortlisted for the 2014 T.S. Eliot Prize, The Stairwell is Michael Longley’s tenth poetry collection. The poems are marked by an elegiac tone, including a sequence of elegies for the poet’s twin brother, Peter. The collection explores themes of life and death, memory, Homeric mythology, war, nature, and human relationships, weaving together personal grief with classical and historical references.