This new collected edition brings together the published poems of one of Britain’s most intelligent, insightful and sympathetic poets.
Michael Laskey has published six collections, most recently Between Ourselves (2022) and Weighing the Present (2014), both from Smith|Doorstop. His first two collections were Poetry Book Society Recommendations: Thinking of Happiness (Peterloo, 1999) and The Tightrope Wedding (Smith|Doorstop, 1999), which was also shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize. Michael co-edited Smiths Knoll for 21 years and co-founded the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival in 1988, which he directed through its first decade. He has worked as a writing tutor with a wide range of adult groups and in schools at all levels and co-tutors the monthly Cut Loose online writing sessions with Dean Parkin. He lives in Suffolk where he runs The Garlic Press, publishing pamphlets mainly by Suffolk poets.
