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The illustrations on this page include Hesiod, from the British Museum, and a book cover.
Michael Schmidt OBE FRSL is the founder and editorial and managing director of Carcanet Press Limited, the general editor of PN Review and Professor of Poetry and convenor of the Creative Writing programme at the University of Glasgow.
This web site may be of interest to browsers curious about Carcanet Press, PN Review, the Glasgow creative writing programme, or about Michael Schmidt's work. He is currently engaged in writing Lives of the Novelists, a companion volume to Lives of the Poets, and one further volumes of The Story of Poetry. His most recent anthology, The Great Modern Poets, was published by Quercus on National Poetry Day 2006. His collection of poems The Resurrection of the Body was published in January 2007 in the United Kingdom and in March 2007 in the United States.
On this site he posts sample chapters from his books and recent poems. He develops links to other sites which students and visitors may find of value, in particular the University of Glasgow, Carcanet and PN Review sites.
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Books by Michael Schmidt include
Poetry
Selected Poems, Smith/Doorstop, 1997
The Love of Strangers, Century Hutchinson, 1989
Choosing a Guest: new and selected poems, Anvil, 1983
Poetry Anthologies
The Great Modern Poets, Quercus, 2006
New Poetries I-IV, Carcanet, 1994-2007
The Harvill Book of Twentieth-Century Poetry in English, Harvill, 1999
Poets on Poets (with Nick Rennison), Waterstone's/Carcanet, 1997
A Calendar of Modern Poetry, PN Review 100, 1994
Eleven British Poets, Methuen/Routledge, 1980
Novels
The Colonist, Muller/Hutchinson, 1983
The Dresden Gate, Century Hutchinson, 1988
Translations
On Poets & Others, Octavio Paz, Paladin, 1991
Flower & Song: Nahuatl Poetry (with Edward Kissam), Anvil, 1977
Literary History and Criticism
Lives of the Ancient Poets: The Greeks, Weidenfeld, Knopf, 2004, 2005
The Story of Poetry I-IV, Weidenfeld, 2001-2008
Lives of the Poets, Weidenfeld, Knopf, 1998, 1999
Reading Modern Poetry, Routledge, 1989
Fifty Modern British Poets: an introduction, Pan/Heinemann, 1979
Fifty English Poets 1300-1900: an introduction, Pan/Heinemann, 1979
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