{"id":8530,"date":"2025-03-19T16:33:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T16:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tse.spyrosntanos.com\/?post_type=person&#038;p=8530"},"modified":"2025-06-13T11:14:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T10:14:25","slug":"michael-donaghy","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/person\/michael-donaghy\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Donaghy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.\u00a0His first full collection, <em>Shibboleth <\/em>(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. <em>Errata<\/em> followed in 1993, and <em>Conjure<\/em> 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 <em>Collected Poems<\/em> was published in 2009. A much loved and influential poet, musician, critic and editor, he died in 2004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.\u00a0His 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8711,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-8530","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/8530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}