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...
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