Michael Longley \'s Prose centres on poetry, even when he is writing autobiographically, or reflecting on war and memory.
Sidelines fills the gap by assembling Prose that ranges from his youthful poetry reviews, to the lectures he gave as Ireland Professor of Poetry..
Readers of his poetry have lacked access to his aesthetic thinking.
Michael Longley \'s Prose centres on poetry, even when he is writing autobiographically, or reflecting on war and memory