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About

Michael Schmidt FRSL poet scholar critic and translator was 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.