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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
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 Review in PN Review 8 (1979) on Peter Jones
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 12 (1980) on W. S. Graham
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 25 (1982) on C. B. Cox's poems
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 52 (1986) on Charles Tomlinson
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 59 (1988) Valencia, June 1987
Review in PN Review 173 (2007) on Paul Muldoon
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