Michael Schmidt

Michael Schmidt OBE FRSL is the founder and editorial and managing director of Carcanet Press Limited and the general editor of PN Review. He was until recently Professor of Poetry and convener of the Creative Writing programme in the Department of English, University of Glasgow. He has also been Writer in Residence at St John's College, Cambridge, and Visiting Fellow Commoner at Trinity College, Cambridge. He is now Professor of Poetry at the University of Manchester, editorial and managing director of Carcanet Press Ltd and folunder and general editor of PN Review. In 2013 he completed The Novel: A Biography, published in May 2014, a companion volume to Lives of the Poets (1999). His most recent anthologies include, The Great Modern Poets, published by Quercus on National Poetry Day 2006; Five American Poets (including Robert Hass, James McMichael, John Matthias, John Peck, and Robert Pinsky), published by Carcanet in 2010, New Poetries V, including 22 hitherto uncollected anglophone poets from around the world, in 2011, and New Poetries VI, including 21 hitherto uncollected anglophone poets in 2015; and New Poetries VII, including 22 hitherto uncollected poets, in 2018. New Poetries VIII, edited with John McAuliffe, came out in 2021. His collection of poems The Resurrection of the Body was published in 2007. His Collected Poems appeared in 2009 and The Stories of My Life in 2013. A Very Selected Poems appeared from The Poetry Business in 2018, and Talking to Stanley on the Telephone in 2020.