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Mick Imlah

Mick Imlah (1956-2009) was born and brought up near Glasgow and in Kent. He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he subsequently taught as a Junior Fellow. He was editor of Poetry Review from 1983-6, and then Poetry Editor at the Times Literary Supplement for sixteen years from 1992. His poems appeared in The Zoologist’s Bath (1982), Birthmarks (1988), Penguin New Poets 3 (1994) and Diehard (2006). He edited The New Penguin Book of Scottish Verse (with Robert Crawford, 2000) and made selections for Faber of the poems of Tennyson and Edwin Muir. His final collection, The Lost Leader, was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, and won the Forward Prize for Best Collection in 2008.