NEW & COLLECTED POEMS 

Michael Schmidt - literary critic, anthologist, poet, translator, novelist, publisher

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Michael Schmidt - literary critic, anthologist, poet, translator, novelist, publisher

New & Collected Poems
USA: Sheep Meadow Press, 2010

Collected Poems
Smith/Doorstop Books, 2009

As early as his first pub­lic­a­tion, John Fuller in The Listener praised Michael Schmidt for ‘the natural enthu­siasm and chancy drama of the way he writes, its mel­an­choly pre­ci­sion and ima­gin­a­tion.’ Collected Poems brings together over three decades of Michael Schmidt’s work. It is a remark­able achieve­ment, not least for the sus­tained quality and ser­i­ous­ness of purpose, and – despite an unusual variety of approach and material – for its coher­ence and genu­inely dis­tinctive voice.

‘Vibrant, radiant… steeped in mod­ernist tra­di­tion (Yeats and Eliot) and quest­ingly new… a pas­sionate dis­course that is at once earthy and numinous.’
– John Ashbery