Michael Schmidt

Michael Schmidt OBE FRSL is a founder and editorial director of Carcanet Press Limited, general editor of PN Review and Professor of Poetry and convenor of the Creative Writing programme at the University of Glasgow. He is currently engaged in writing Lives of the Novelists, a companion volume to his Lives of the Poets, and one further volume of The Story of Poetry. His most recent anthology, The Great Modern Poets,was published by Quercus on National Poetry Day 2006. His seventh collection of poems, The Resurrection of the Body, was published in January 2007 in the United Kingdom and in March 2007 in the United States.

Michael's qualifications and experience ensure that all entries to the competition will receive the best possible professional assessment.

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Awards Day Details

When:
8th May 2009

Where:
Canadian High Commission, London