About the Author

Michael Schmidt OBE FRSL is Professor of Poetry at the University of Glasgow, where he is also convenor of the Creative Writing M Litt Programme. He is a founder and the Editorial and Managing Director of Carcanet Press and founder and general Editor of PN Review. He has published several collections of poems, two novels, a number of anthologies and volumes of literary history, and two books of translations. Eleanor Crawforth read English Literature at Cambridge before joining Carcanet Press in 2005. She has an MA in Post-1900 Literatures, Theories & Cultures from the University of Manchester. She is 'News & Notes' editor of PN Review and writes for the magazine. She co-edited the anthologies New Poetries IV (2007) and New Poetries V (2011) and is currently editing Letters to an Editor, a volume of literary correspondence from the Carcanet archive (to be published in 2012).

Reviews

'There is still an abundance of poetic talent out there, and people vigilant enough to notice it. Give it a go. You'll like it.' - Nicholas Lezard, the Guardian '...an opportunity to sample the dynamic range and variety of carefully wrought forms that modern poetry can, and will continue, to be capable of.' - Independent on Sunday 'New Poetries...puts on show poets who've come good relatively young with older ones whose fame is yet to grow...bringing new English from another continent or other tongue.' - Daily Telegraph