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Music as Muse: The Importance of Jazz for Michael Longley

In an interview with Culture Northern Ireland, our poet Michael Longley stated that his favorite types of music were “Boogie-woogie and Bach.”  Longley claims that he has been guided by the musical muse since he first began writing in his teenage years.  According to an article Longley wrote for The Guardian in 2011, the muse has…