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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 website can be found at www.michaelschmidt.org.uk.

Michael Schmidt's work featured in PN Review comprises 11 reports, four contributions of poetry, 10 articles, eight interviews, and eight reviews, over a period of 52 years. Also available are two reviews of Michael Schmidt's work and one translation by Michael Schmidt.
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Further Reading
Article in Poetry Nation 1 (1973) The Politics of Form
Subscribers only Article in Poetry Nation 5 (1975) Burns Singer
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 3 (1978) Apprehensive Applause
Article in PN Review 5 (1978) CHARLES TOMLINSON AT 50: A CELEBRATION
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 9 (1979) The God of Chance
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 16 (1980) A Note
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 31 (1983) A Late Conversion
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 57 (1987) Octavio Paz: The Dream Set Free
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 70 (1989) Gunn, for example
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 176 (2007) Whitman in Europe
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