Books by Chris Agee

Chris Agee was born in 1956 in San Francisco and grew up in Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island. He attended Harvard University and since 1979 has lived in Ireland. He is the author of two books of poems, In the New Hampshire Woods (The Dedalus Press, 1992) and First Light (The Dedalus Press, 2003). He edits Irish Pages, a journal of contemporary writing based at The Linen Hall Library, Belfast. He reviews for The Irish Times and has recently completed a new collection of poems, Next to Nothing (Salt, 2009), which will be published in Britain, Ireland and the United States in January 2009. Michael Longley was born in Belfast in 1939. After reading classics at Trinity College, Dublin, he taught in schools in Belfast, Dublin and London, joining the Arts Council of Northern Ireland in 1970 as Combined Arts Director. He was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2001 and the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2000. His poetry engages with the natural landscape and its wildlife in intimate detail, as well as presenting them as a counterbalance to the often violent contemporary urban world. His Collected Poems was published in 2006, and in 2007 he was appointed Professor of Poetry for Ireland.