Michael Longley: Baucis and Philemon

Poem Title

Original Publication

CP Page no

Baucis and Philemon

The Ghost Orchid, London: Jonathan Cape, 1995

212

Length / Form 5 line stanzas

Relationship to Classical text  Ovid Metamorphoses 8.618-724.

Comment  P. McDonald, ‘An Interview with Michael Longley.’ Thumbscrew 12 (1988-9): www.poetrymagazines.org.uk. :  'I set myself a formal challenge - five-line stanzas, proper stanzas.' (Michael Longley)