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Here They Are - cover

Here They Are

Michael Schmid

Publisher: The Poetry Business

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Michael Schmidt was born in Mexico in 1947. He studied at Harvard and at Wadham College, Oxford. He is Professor of Poetry at the University of Manchester and visiting professor at Bolton University. He is a founder (1969) and editorial and managing director of Carcanet Press Limited, and a founder (1972) and general editor of PN Review. He has written poetry, fiction and literary history, and is a translator and anthologist. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he received an OBE in 2006 for services to poetry and higher education.
Available since: 07/09/2026.
Print length: 36 pages.

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