Michael Longley

Michael Longley CBE (27 July 1939 – 22 January 2025) was a Northern Irish poet.^[1] During his career, he won the Whitbread Poetry Prize, the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Hawthornden Prize. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Michael Longley CBE
Longley reading his poetry at the Corrymeela Peace Centre near Ballycastle, County Antrim, July 2012
Born	(1939-07-27)27 July 1939 Belfast, Northern Ireland
Died	22 January 2025(2025-01-22) (aged 85) Belfast, Northern Ireland
Education	Royal Belfast Academical Institution
Alma mater	Trinity College Dublin (TCD)
Notable awards	Whitbread Poetry Prize T. S. Eliot Prize Hawthornden Prize

Longley died from problems caused by hip surgery at a hospital in Belfast on 22 January 2025, at the age of 85.^[1][2][3]