Michael Longley The Vitality of Ordinary Things
b'To reassert the liveliness of ordinary things, precisely in the face of what is hardest and most broken in life and society \\u2014 this has been Michael Longley\\u2019s gift as one of Northern Ireland\\u2019s foremost living poets. He is known, in part, as a poet of \\u201cthe Troubles\\u201d \\u2014 the violent 30-year conflict between Protestants and Catholics, English and Irish. And he is a gentle voice for all of us now, wise and winsome about the everyday, never-finished work of social healing.'