Michael Longley: Ivory and Water

Poem Title

Original Publication

CP Page no

Ivory and Water

The Ghost Orchid, London: Jonathan Cape, 1995

206

Relationship to Classical text Version/Adaptation Ovid Metamorphoses 10.244-295

Comment  P. McDonald,  ‘An Interview with Michael Longley.’ Thumbscrew 12 (1988-9): www.poetrymagazines.org.uk. :  '…takes two of the stories, the woman changed into a fountain and the woman changed into ivory, the Arethusa and Pygmalion stories, and splices them to see if they might illuminate sexual neurosis.' (Michael Longley)

Note Previously published in eds M. Hoffman and J. Lasdun, After Ovid: New Metamorphoses, 1994, London, Faber