Michael Donaghy was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1954. In 1985 he moved to London, where he worked as a teacher and traditional Irish musician. His first full collection, Shibboleth (Oxford University Press, 1988), won the Whitbread Prize for Poetry and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize; its title poem won second prize in the National Poetry Competition. Errata followed in 1993, and Conjure in 2000, which was a Poetry Book Society Choice and shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot and Whitbread Prizes; it won the Forward Prize for Best Collection that year. His Collected Poems was published in 2009. A much loved and influential poet, musician, critic and editor, he died in 2004.
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