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The Candlelight Master Paperback – August 6, 2020

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'I can't bear the thought of a world without Michael Longley, yet his poetry keeps hurtling towards that fact more and more urgently as it stretches in an unflinching way beyond comfort or certainty.' So wrote Maria Johnston, reviewing Longley's previous book Angel Hill. Yet The Candlelight Master does not only face into shadows. The title poem sums up the chiaroscuro of this collection, named after a mysterious Baroque painter. Other poems about painters - Matisse, Bonnard - imply that age makes the quest for artistic perfection all the more vital. A poem addressed to the eighth-century Japanese poet, Otomo Yakamochi, says: 'We gaze on our soul-landscapes / More intensely with every year.' The soul-landscape of The Candlelight Master is often a landscape of memory. But if Longley looks back over formative experiences, and over the forms he has given them, he channels memory into freshly fluid structures. His new poems about war and the Holocaust speak to our own dark times. Translation brings dead poets up to date too. The bawdy of Catullus becomes Scots 'Hochmagandy'. Yakamochi and the lyric poets of Ancient Greece find themselves at home in Longley's Carrigskeewaun.

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    Jonathan Cape
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    August 6, 2020
  5. Dimensions
    5.16 x 5.16 x 7.76 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1787332039
  7. ISBN-13
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Jonathan Cape (August 6, 2020)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 80 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1787332039
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1787332034
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.16 x 5.16 x 7.76 inches
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william hanna
5.0 out of 5 stars New work from an old master
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 12, 2020
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In 'The Candlelight Master' Michael Longley gives a new gloss to enduring themes of his work: war and love, childhood and age, birds and wildflowers, Belfast and Carrigskeewaun. I was moved by 'Glossary' about his father and 'Ors' about Wilfred Owen. 'Key changes' took me back to classical concerts in the Ulster Hall in the days before the Troubles, while 'Flower-names' echoes one of the poet's finest elegies for victims of Northern Ireland's time of 'disgrace'. Now in his 80s Michael Longley is writing with renewed vigour and lightness. Join me at the Wigtown Book Festival on Tuesday 29 September 2020 to hear the poet read from his new collection and discuss his work.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 10, 2020
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An excellent new collection by this master poet, with subtle new directions, angles and views, elegiac and celebratory and full of affection.
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Mitchell Keene
2.0 out of 5 stars Fine but the same
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 14, 2020
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Meh. More of the same from a poet who has in the past delighted this reader but who, in recent years, has retreated to the safety of the same old same old. Many poems, quite understandably, are about the prospect of death but there is a self indulgence even in these poems which is maudlin rather than heroic.
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