Ash Keys by Michael Longley Nick Ascroft published 30 years after the

published 30 years after the Twyford protests

and the bitter salves of Western privilege

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brilliant' Yrsa Daley-Ward'A must for all lovers of poetry and its power' Roger Robinson'Manorism is a classic' Caleb FemiIn poems exploring family

and throughout the natural world

Ash Keys by Michael Longley Nick Ascroft published 30 years after thePublished to coincide with his 85th birthday, Ash Keys looks back on the extraordinary career of the last surviving member of the triumvirate of poets that rose out of 1960s Belfast'A master in an old, great tradition' THE TIMES'A keeper of the artistic estate, a custodian of griefs and wonders' SEAMUS HEANEYThe title of Michael Longleys New Selected Poems is taken from his poem Ash Keys. The wing shaped, wind borne seeds of the ash tree might be an