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"'I can't bear the thought of a world without Michael Longley, yet his poetry keeps hurtling towards that fact more and more urgently as it stretches in an unflinching way beyond comfort or certainty.'" So wrote Maria Johnston, reviewing Longley's previous book, Angel Hill . Yet The Candlelight Master does not only face into shadows. The title poem sums up the chiaroscuro of this collection, named after a mysterious Baroque painter. Other poems about...

"The National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poet writes a stunning memorial work that excavates the forgotten experience of West Indian soldiers during World War I"--

"A collection of three medieval English poems translated by Tolkien for the modern-day reader and edited by his son, Christopher Tolkien."--