New from Smith/Doorstop
We're delighted to announce the launch of four new pamphlets and three new books from Smith/Doorstop.
All are available to buy direct from The Poetry Business or from Inpress. (See www.poetrybusiness.co.uk or call 0114 346 3037 for details.) Friends of The Poetry Business are entitled to their usual 25% off the cover price when they order direct from us.
Collected Poems – Michael Schmidt
Michael Schmidt was born in Mexico in 1947. He studied at Harvard
and at Wadham 
College, Oxford. He is Professor of Poetry at Glasgow
University, where he is convenor of the Creative Writing Programme.
He is a founder (1969) and editorial and managing director of Carcanet Press Limited, and a founder (1972) and general editor of PN Review. An anthologist, translator, critic and literary historian, he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and received an O.B.E. in 2006 for services to poetry.
'Vibrant, radiant... steeped in modernist tradition (Yeats and Eliot) and questingly new... a passionate discourse that is at once earthy and numinous' – John Ashbery
‘Schmidt is a stringent poet, never shy of painful truth’ – Helen Dunmore, The Observer
Read a poem from Michael Schmidt's Collected Poems here.
An entertaining and powerful performance poet, John Lyons is also known nationally
and internationally as a painter.
No Apples in Eden draws on his four previous collections and includes more of his trademark vibrant new work.
'Most of these poems are made from the tough materials and the tough language of folklore and custom. Say them aloud and improve your English as well as your Trinidadian.' — Roy Fisher
'In hauntingly beautiful language, John Lyons recounts snippets of Caribbean life through poems which dance in the memory long after the book is closed." — Valerie Bloom
Read a poem from No Apples in Eden here.
At the Races – Michael McCarthy
Michael McCarthy grew up on a farm in West Cork, Ireland. His first poetry collection
Birds’ Nests and Other Poems
won the Patrick Kavanagh Award. His children’s books have been
translated into seventeen languages. He works as a priest in North
Yorkshire.
'At the Races' was the overall winner of the 2008 Book & Pamphlet Competition.
'What I love about Michael’s poetry is the extraordinary specific detail, the pictures painted by the juxtaposition of words. It sings with a poetic intelligence. It moves me: the people, the memories, the vividness of detail.' — Sinead Cusack
Read a poem from At the Races here.New Smith/Doorstop pamphlets
Read a poem from Mike Di Placido's Theatre of Dreams here.
*First-stage winner in the 2008 Book & Pamphlet Competition*
Read a poem from Sally Goldsmith's Singer here.
*First-stage winner in the 2008 Book & Pamphlet Competition*
Read a poem from Carole Bromley's Skylight here.
*First-stage winner in the 2008 Book & Pamphlet Competition*
Read a sample poem from Anna Woodford's Party Piece here.
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