Michael Schmidt (poet)

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Michael Schmidt
PN Review

Michael Schmidt

publisher
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Early life

Born in

Oxford University
.

Career

Schmidt was Professor of Poetry at

PN Review
.

A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (elected in 1993),[2] Schmidt received an OBE in 2006 for services to poetry.[4] His literary career has been described as having "a strong sense of internationalism and cultural 'connectedness'".[5] Schmidt refers to himself in his 1998 book Lives of the Poets as "an Anglophone Mexican publisher".[5]

Schmidt's 2014 book, The Novel: A Biography, is a loosely chronological history of the development of the novel.[6] The book aims to explore the relationships between great novelists, including views by other novelists, while avoiding literary critics who were not also writers.[7]

In August 2015, Schmidt was one of 20 authors of Poets for Corbyn, an anthology of poems endorsing

Labour Party leadership election.[8][9]

Selected bibliography

Poetry

  • It Was My Tree (Anvil, 1970)
  • Bedlam and the Oak Wood (Carcanet, 1970)
  • Desert of the Lions (Carcanet, 1972)
  • My Brother Gloucester (Carcanet, 1976)
  • A Change of Affairs (Anvil, 1978)
  • The Love of Strangers – Poetry Book Society Special Commendation (Century Hutchinson, 1989)
  • Selected Poems, 1972-1997 – Poetry Book Society Special Commendation (Smith/Doorstop, 1997)
  • The Resurrection of the Body (USA: Sheep Meadow; Smith/Doorstop, 2007)
  • Collected Poems (Smith/Doorstop, 2009, Sheep Meadow Press, 2010)
  • The Stories of My Life (Smith/Doorstop 2013)

Fiction

  • The Colonist – Los Angeles Times book award (Muller/Hutchinson, 1983; published in USA as Green Island, Vanguard, 1984, Dell, 1985)
  • The Dresden Gate (Century Hutchinson, 1988; Vanguard, 1989)

Criticism

Anthologies

  • New Poetries I-VIII (Carcanet, 1994–2018)
  • Eleven British Poets (Methuen, 1980)
  • The Harvill Book of Twentieth-Century Poetry in English (1999, 2005) (editor)
  • A Calendar of Modern Poetry (PN Review 100, 1994)
  • The Great Modern Poets(inc audio excerpts) Quercus Poetry, 2006,
    ISBN 9780857382467

References

  1. ^ "Poetry Professor offers Independent thinking". University of Glasgow. 8 March 2008. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
  2. ^ a b "Michael Schmidt". rsliterature.org. Retrieved 26 January 2024.
  3. ^ Life/Letters, Michael Schmidt website.
  4. ^ Schmidt, Michael (2007). The Resurrection of the Body. Smith/Doorstop Books.
  5. ^ a b Contemporary Writers. Archived 7 September 2006 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ Deresiewicz, William (June 2014). "How the Novel Made the Modern World". The Atlantic. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  7. ^ Eaglestone, Robert (31 July 2014). "The Novel: A Biography, by Michael Schmidt". Times Higher Education. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  8. ISBN 978-0-9928034-5-2
    .
  9. ^ Bennetts, Russell (25 August 2015). "Yes we scan: Poets line up for Jeremy Corbyn". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 July 2017.

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