Ash Keys by Michael Longley Nick Ascroft and the long-lasting effects of

and the long-lasting effects of early messages about relationships and self-worth

published 30 years after the Twyford protests

the poem becomes a space in which the poet can reckon with his own ancestry

and the bitter salves of Western privilege

Ash Keys by Michael Longley Nick Ascroft and the long-lasting effects ofPublished 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