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Shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize and twice a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, Michael Laskey is widely regarded as one of Britain's most intelligent, insightful and sympathetic poets. This new book brings together over 20 years of his brilliant work.

Michael founded the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival in 1998, and since 1991 has been co-editor of Smiths Knoll magazine. He lives in Suffolk, where he is a freelance writer and tutor.

Michael Laskey is a full time freelance poet, editor, and tutor with many years experience of promoting contemporary poetry.

He has published five collections, most recently Weighing the Present (Smith/Doorstop, 2014) and The Man Alone: New & Selected Poems (2008). His first two collections were Poetry Book Society Recommendations: Thinking of Happiness (Peterloo, 1991) and The Tightrope Wedding (Smith/Doorstop, 1999), which was also shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize. He co-founded the international Aldeburgh Poetry Festival in 1989 and directed it through its first decade. He also founded and co-edited the poetry magazine Smiths Knoll with Roy Blackman (1991-2002) and Joanna Cutts (2002-2012) until the final fiftieth issue in November 2012. He published pamphlets under the Smiths Knoll imprint until 2016, many available here and still continues his work as an editor with The Garlic Press (which he established 2003) which principally publishes Suffolk based poets.