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Michael Schmidt FRSL, poet, scholar, critic and translator, C107was born in Mexico in 1947; he studied at Harvard and at Wadham College, Oxford, before settling in England. Among his many publications are several collections of poems and a novel, The Colonist (1981), about a boy's childhood in Mexico. He is general editor of PN Review and founder as well as managing director of Carcanet Press. He lives in Manchester; Luke Allan (Managing Editor) studied Literature & Creative Writing at UEA. Before joining Carcanet in 2015 he worked as a project manager in the Arts in Newcastle and Edinburgh, and managed Studio Alec Finlay and the poetry press Morning Star. He is founding-director of the poetry press sine wave peak and co-founder of the poetry magazine Butcher's Dog; he also edits the journal Quait and is former editor of the Newcastle Philosophy Society journal. In 2011 his poetry received a Northern Promise Award. His first collection, minimum soft exchange, was published by MIEL in 2015.

0 Stella Halkyard Pictures from a Library; 02 Editorial; 03 News & Notes; 04 Letters; 72 Contributors; 73 Michael Powell From Chetham's Library; 05 Vahni Capildeo Poetry Does Not Apply Here; 06 Jamie Osborn Letter from Chios; 07 Sam Adams Letter from Wales; 09 Frank Kuppner Rough Notes for One or Two Undelivered Lectures on T. S. Eliot's Dante (4); 10 Zohar Atkins Five Poems; 12 Stephen Procter Xi Chuan & the Contradictory Aesthetics of Revolution; 16 Diana Bridge J. H. Prynne in China; 17 Marius Kociejowski 'All That Needs to Be and Nothing Else': An Appreciation of Michael Hersch; 23 Mary Durkin Variations of Beige & other poems; 24 Venus Khoury-Ghata The Mothers & the Mediterranean (translated by Marilyn Hacker); 27 Andrew Latimer Poetry for the Future: Thom Gunn & the Legacy of Poetry; 30 R. F. Langley From the Journals; 30 Miles Burrows At Nam Yao & other poems; 32 John Gallas Mad John's Walk; 35 Anthony Barnett from Lithos; 39 Kathryn Horrex Four Muses & other poems; 40 Edwin Morgan Translator's Notebook (1) (edited by James McGonigal); 44 Andrew Wynn Owen An Encomium; 45 Alan Hollinghurst in conversation; 54 John Fuller Fulehung & other poems; 56 Tom Cook The Florio Society; 57 Andrew McNeillie Strike a Light; 59 Jane Griffiths John; 60 Elise Paschen A Tribute; 61 Jonathan Keates An Apology; 61 Adam Thorpe The Florio Society; 63 Robert Selby Fun & True; 65 Andrew Motion John Fuller; 66 Nicola LeFanu The Making of Dream Hunter; 68 Neil Powell John in Early Autumn; 69 Josh Degenhardt on Anne Carson; 69 Ruth Hawthorn on Letter Writing among Poets; 69 Alison Brackenbury on Seven pamphlets