{"id":8570,"date":"2025-03-19T19:39:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T19:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tse.spyrosntanos.com\/?post_type=person&#038;p=8570"},"modified":"2025-04-14T18:14:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T17:14:52","slug":"michael-laskey","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/person\/michael-laskey\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Laskey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"term-description\">\n<p>Michael Laskey\u00a0has published five collections, most recently\u00a0<em>Between Ourselves<\/em>\u00a0(2022) and\u00a0<em>Weighing the Present<\/em>\u00a0(2014), both from Smith|Doorstop. His first two collections were Poetry Book Society Recommendations:\u00a0<em>Thinking of Happiness\u00a0<\/em>(Peterloo, 1999) and\u00a0<em>The Tightrope Wedding\u00a0<\/em>(Smith|Doorstop, 1999), which was also shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. Michael co-edited <em>Smiths Knoll<\/em> for twenty-one years and co-founded the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival in 1988, which he directed through its first decade. He works as a writing tutor with a wide range of adult groups and in schools at all levels. He lives in Suffolk where he runs The Garlic Press, publishing pamphlets mainly by Suffolk poets.<\/p>\n<p><em>This biography of Michael Laskey is supplied by <a href=\"https:\/\/poetrybusiness.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Poetry Business<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Laskey\u00a0has published five collections, most recently\u00a0Between Ourselves\u00a0(2022) and\u00a0Weighing the Present\u00a0(2014), both from Smith|Doorstop. His first two collections were Poetry Book Society Recommendations:\u00a0Thinking of Happiness\u00a0(Peterloo, 1999) and\u00a0The Tightrope Wedding\u00a0(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, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9246,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-8570","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/8570","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\/9246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}