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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; 10 Letters; 71 Contributors; 73 Michael Powell From Chetham's Library; 15 John Wilkinson Ways to Get About Busan; 20 Laura Scott Three Poems; 22 Anjali Yardi Three Poems; 23 Sujata Bhatt Do You Hear What I'm Saying?; 29 Miriam Neiger-Fleischmann Three Poems; 30 Paolo Febbraro Four Poems; 31 Igor Klikovac Three Poems; 32 Carol Rumens A Translation & Three Poems; 53 Tony Roberts on Richard Holmes & Deaths of the Poets; 54 Nicolas Tredell on Terence Cave's Thinking with Literature; 55 Evan Jones on Reginald Gibbons's How Poems Think; 56 Mark Thompson on Donald Childs's The Birth of New Criticism; 58 Michael Daniels on William Wootten & Clasp; 60 Gregory Woods on Dominique Edde's The Crime of Jean Genet; 61 Roger Caldwell on Roger Scruton's Wagner; 63 Maitreyabandhu on Bernard O'Donoghue's The Seasons of Cullen Church; 16 Emily Grosholz The Golden Ratio: Poetry & Mathematics; 24 Karen Van Dyck What's Found in Translation; 33 Drew Milne 'Just Saying No': Beckett's Epistolary Dissidence; 38 Peter McDonald Yeats, Landor, Hill & An Unwritten Book; 43 Edwin Morgan Translator's Notebook : 2 (ed. James McGonigal); 48 John Lucas On the Watch; 51 Maitreyabandhu Poetry in Motion; 63 Sue Leigh on Fiona Sampson's The Catch; 64 Shengchi Hsu on Martyn Crucefix's Daodejing; 65 Hilary Davies on John McAuliffe's The Way In; 65 Ian Seed on James Tate & Em Strang; 34 Jack Hanson Two Poems; 35 Jay Degenhardt Switchblade; 35 John Upton Four Poems; 40 Adam Thorpe Two Poems; 41 Becky Cullen Two Poems; 42 Leo Mayer Three Poems; 46 James Leo McAskill Three Poems; 52 Rowland Bagnall Two Poems; 07 Vahni Capildeo Madwoman: What Compelled You; 08 Jennie Feldman Letter from Paris; 09 Trevor Barnett Looking for Lorca; 11 Sam Adams Letter from Wales; 12 R. F. Langley From the Journals; 13 Frank Kuppner Glasgow SQE University: Entrance Examination; 67 John Muckle on Elsa Cross, Sandeep Parmar, Linda Black, Susan Connolly & Em Strang; 68 Henry King on Stephen Burt's The Poem is You: 60 Contemporary Poems and How to Read Them; 70 Alison Brackenbury