Tag: Hawthornden Prize
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Pre-reading and re-reading Michael Longley’s ‘The Candlelight Master’
As I read the contents of Michael Longley’s ‘The Candlelight Master’, two things struck me. First, that I was pre-reading the poems by virtue of their mapping in the contents. Second, that I was pre-reading the contents by virtue of my prior knowledge of Longley’s poetry. This blog is about the first of these.