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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
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 Poetry Collection in PN Review 62 (1988) for Elizabeth Daryush
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