The Candlelight Master by Michael Longley Rupi Kaur and the collection concludes with

and the collection concludes with a selection of sometimes witty

including works by Fra Angelico

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The African overtones draws you into lives that are real and gritty

or in another’s dream that passes through

The Candlelight Master by Michael Longley Rupi Kaur and the collection concludes withI cant 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 Longleys 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 painters