Name Michael Schmidt Role Poet | ||
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Education Harvard University, Wadham College, Oxford Nominations National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism Books Black Flame: The Revolutio, The Lives of the Poets, The First Poets, Great Modern Poets, The Stories of My Life | ||
Organizations founded Carcanet Press | ||
Michael schmidt
Michael Schmidt OBE FRSL (born 2 March 1947) is a Mexican-British poet, author, scholar and publisher.
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Michael schmidt
Early life
Born in Mexico City, Mexico. Schmidt was educated at The Hill School from 1959-1965 and earned an English Speaking Union Scholarship to attend Christ’s Hospital School from 1965-6. Schmidt studied at Harvard and at Wadham College, Oxford University.
Career
Schmidt was Professor of Poetry at Glasgow University until 2014, and from 2012 to 2015 he was Writer in Residence at St. John's College, Cambridge. He is founder (1969) and editorial and managing director of Carcanet Press and a founder (1973) and general editor of PN Review. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he received an OBE in 2006 for services to poetry. His literary career has been described as having "a strong sense of internationalism and cultural ‘connectedness’". Schmidt refers to himself in his book Lives of the Poets as "an Anglophone Mexican publisher".
Schmidt's 2014 book The Novel: A Biography is a loosely chronological history of the development of the novel. The book aims to explore the relationships between great novelists, including views by other novelists while avoiding literary critics who were not also writers.
In August 2015, Schmidt was one of 20 authors of Poets for Corbyn, an anthology of poems endorsing Jeremy Corbyn's campaign in the Labour Party leadership election.
