The poet, editor and critic Mick Imlah was born in Aberdeen on 26 September 1956. Brought up near Glasgow and in Kent, he studied at Magdalen College, Oxford, studying under John Fuller, with whom he would later collaborate. His DPhil – not submitted – was on Arthurian legends in Victorian poetry. From 1983 to 1986, Imlah was the editor of...
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