Jamie McKendrick

Jamie McKendrick was born in Liverpool in 1955. He is author of eight collections of poetry and has won the Forward Prize for Best Collection (The Marble Fly, 1997), the Hawthornden Prize (Out There, 2012) and the Cholmondeley Award (2019). He has been shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Forward Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award. His translations of Valerio Magrelli’s poetry (The Embrace, 2009) won the Oxford-Weidenfeld and the John Florio prizes.

This biography of Jamie McKendrick is taken from the Faber & Faber website.

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