The Swim

Michael Longley was born in Belfast in 1939 and read Classics at Trinity College, Dublin. He lives in Belfast and works as the Director of Literature and the Traditional Arts for the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. Longley is married and has three children and has edited an anthology of children’s verse, Under the Moon, Over the Stars (Arts Council, 1971). In 1965 he won an Eric Gregory Award. (updated 1983)