
A Guardian Herald Scotland Book of the Year Winner of the 2017 PEN Pinter prize Shortlisted for the 2017 Forward Prize A remote townland in County Mayo Carrigskeewaun has been for nearly fifty years Michael Longley&s home-from-home his soul-landscape Its lakes & mountains wild animals & flowers its moody seas & skies have for decades lit up his poetry Now they overflow into Angel Hill his exuberant new collection In addition Longley has been exploring Lochalsh in the Western Highlands where his daughter the painter Sarah Longley now lives with her family She has opened up for him her own soul-landscape with its peculiar shapes & intense colours In Angel Hill the imaginations of poet & painter intermingle & two exacting wildernesses productively overlap Love poems & elegies & heart-rending reflections on the Great War & the Northern Irish Troubles add further weight to Michael Longley&s outstanding eleventh collection Angel Hill will undoubtedly delight this great poet&s many admirers