Michael Laskey has published five 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 twenty-one years and co-founded the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival in 1988, which he directed through its...
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