Mick Imlah was born in 1956 and brought up near Glasgow and in Kent. He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he taught as a Junior Fellow. He was editor of
Poetry Review from 1983 to 1986, and worked at the
Times Literary Supplement from 1992. His poems appeared in
The Zoologist's Bath (1982),
Birthmarks (1988),
Penguin New Poets 3 (1994) and
Diehard (2006). He edited
The New Penguin Book of Scottish Verse (with Robert Crawford, 2000) and made selections for Faber of the poems of Tennyson and Edwin Muir. He died in 2009.
Mick Imlah's second and long-awaited collection The Lost Leader was published to acclaim in 2008, shortly before his early death in January 2009. The present retrospect connects the work of three decades, drawing upon Imlah's earlier full-length collection, Birthmarks (1988), but...
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