Poetry Club #4: Ceasefire by Michael Longley

Priam at the feet of Achilles by Jérôme-Martin Langlois (image via Wikimedia: Public Domain)

I think this week’s piece was the first poem I ever memorised of my own volition. It’s by Northern Irish poet Michael Longley, who was on the Leaving Cert English syllabus when I was in school. I think Yeats and Kavanagh were the poets my teacher steered us towar…