Michael Longley: A Bed of Leaves

Michael Longley

• About the poet
• Series / Collections / Collected Works
• Poems with Classical referents
  • A Bed of Leaves
  • A Flowering
  • A Linen Handkerchief
  • A Poppy
  • A Working Holiday
  • According to Pythagoras
  • After Horace
  • Akrotin
  • Altera Cithera
  • An Image from Propertius
  • Anticleia
  • Argos
  • Ars Poetica
  • Baucis and Philemon
  • Cavafy's Desire
  • Ceasefire
  • Circe
  • Corinna
  • Damiana
  • Epithalamion
  • Eurycleia
  • Heartsease
  • Homecoming
  • Homer's Octopus
  • In the Iliad
  • Interview
  • Ivory and Water
  • Laertes
  • Lares
  • Mercury
  • Metamorphoses
  • Narcissus
  • Nausicaa
  • Odyssey
  • Old Soldiers
  • Paper Boats
  • Peace: After Tibullus
  • Perdix
  • Persephone
  • Phemios and Medon
  • Phoenix
  • Praxille
  • Remembering the Poets
  • Sleep & Death
  • Spiderwoman
  • Sulpicia
  • The Beech Tree
  • The Bullet Hole
  • The Butchers
  • The Camp-Fires
  • The Centaurs
  • The Evening Star
  • The Garden
  • The Group
  • The Helmet
  • The Horses
  • The Oar
  • The Parody
  • The Parting
  • The Snow Leopard
  • The Vision of Theoclymenus
  • To Three Irish Poets
  • Tree House
  • War & Peace
• Selected bibliography