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To dwell on beauty and normalcy.

To reassert the liveliness of ordinary things, precisely in the face of what is hardest

and most broken in society.

This has been Michael Longley's gift to Northern Ireland as one of its foremost living poets.

I had the pleasure of conversing with him before an adoring audience at the Mac Theatre and

Belfast in 2016.

Like his late friend, Sheamus Heaney, Michael Longley was known in part as a poet of what

is called the Troubles.

The bloody 30-year conflict between Protestants and Catholics, English and Irish.

That ended with the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, and to this day, Michael Longley is a

gentle, winsome force for us all in the ongoing, never-finished work of social healing.

There's a line by John Flair that I adore.

I love John Flair.

I revere him, ports of nature, and themselves are love.

And I believe that with all my heart and heart of writing is adoration.

For me, celebrating the wild flowers or the birds is like a kind of worship.

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