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Michael Schmidt

Michael Schmidt is the General Editor of PN Review and helped to found the magazine in 1973. He is the editorial director of Carcanet Press Ltd, Professor of Poetry at the University of Glasgow, and the author of Lives of the Poets, Lives of the First Poets, three volumes of The Story of Poetry, several anthologies, and his Collected Poems was published in 2009. 

He writes most of the magazine's Editorials. See also 'M. Schmidt'.



Michael Schmidt's work featured in PN Review comprises 10 reports, four contributions of poetry, 10 articles, eight interviews, and eight reviews, over a period of 43 years. Also available are two reviews of Michael Schmidt's work and one translation by Michael Schmidt.
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Further Reading
Subscribers only Poetry Collection in Poetry Nation 1 (1973) My Town
Article in Poetry Nation 1 (1973) The Politics of Form
Subscribers only Interviewed by Alan Young in Poetry Nation 1 (1973) A Conversation with Edgell Rickword
Subscribers only Interviewed by C.B. Cox in Poetry Nation 2 (1974) Lennox Berkeley In Conversation
Subscribers only Poetry Collection in Poetry Nation 3 (1974) The Sleigh (after a theme of Turgenev)
Subscribers only Poetry Collection in Poetry Nation 5 (1975) The Freeze
Subscribers only Article in Poetry Nation 5 (1975) Burns Singer
Translation of an Article by Octavio Paz in Poetry Nation 5 (1975) Black and White - The Graphics of Charles Tomlinson (Translated by Michael Schmidt)
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 3 (1978) Apprehensive Applause
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 3 (1978) Two Anthologies
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 4 (1978) The Art of the Real
Subscribers only Interview in PN Review 5 (1978) Charles Tomlinson in Conversation
Article in PN Review 5 (1978) CHARLES TOMLINSON AT 50: A CELEBRATION
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 8 (1979) on Peter Jones
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 9 (1979) The God of Chance
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 12 (1980) on W. S. Graham
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 16 (1980) A Note
Subscribers only Reviewed by Donald Davie in PN Review 16 (1980) on Pan Literature Guides
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 21 (1981) The Common Language
Subscribers only Interviewed by Val Warner in PN Review 23 (1982) Sylvia Townsend Warner in Conversation
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 25 (1982) on C. B. Cox's poems
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 28 (1982) Two Book Fairs
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 31 (1983) A Late Conversion
Subscribers only Interview in PN Review 39 (1984) C.H. Sisson in Conversation
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 40 (1984) Literature in the Arts Council Garden
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 40 (1984) Critical Quarterly at 25
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 52 (1986) on Charles Tomlinson
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 57 (1987) Octavio Paz: The Dream Set Free
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 59 (1988) Valencia, June 1987
Subscribers only Poetry Collection in PN Review 62 (1988) for Elizabeth Daryush
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 66 (1989) Kenneth Baker Profile
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 67 (1989) The Rylands Affair
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 70 (1989) J.M. Cohen
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 70 (1989) Gunn, for example
Subscribers only Interviewed by Carolyn Masel in PN Review 87 (1992) Judith Wright: A Written Interview
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 114 (1997) Vanity Publishing
Subscribers only Interview in PN Review 118 (1997) in Conversation with Elaine Feinstein
Subscribers only Interview in PN Review 136 (2000) in conversation with Michael Hamburger
Reviewed by Judy Kendall in PN Review 150 (2003) on Carcanet's New Poetries
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 154 (2003) C.H. Sisson (1914-2003)
Review in PN Review 173 (2007) on Paul Muldoon
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 176 (2007) Whitman in Europe
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 223 (2015) Robert Gavron 1930–2015
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