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Smith: A Reader's Guide to the Poetry of Michael Donaghy is the first substantial critical work to be written on one of the UK's most influential and best-loved poets. In fifty short essays accompanying fifty of Donaghy's best poems, his friend and editor Don Paterson argues that Donaghy was the author of some of the most powerful, complex, moving and memorable poems of our time, and should now be recognized as one of the finest poets of the age. Combining sharp and witty analysis of Donaghy's poetry with biographical sketch and reminiscence, Smith takes the unusual approach of siting…mehr

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Smith: A Reader's Guide to the Poetry of Michael Donaghy is the first substantial critical work to be written on one of the UK's most influential and best-loved poets. In fifty short essays accompanying fifty of Donaghy's best poems, his friend and editor Don Paterson argues that Donaghy was the author of some of the most powerful, complex, moving and memorable poems of our time, and should now be recognized as one of the finest poets of the age. Combining sharp and witty analysis of Donaghy's poetry with biographical sketch and reminiscence, Smith takes the unusual approach of siting Donaghy's work in both a literary and a personal context. Michael Donaghy was born in the Bronx, New York,in 1954. In 1985 he moved to London, where he spent the rest of his life, writing, teaching and playing traditional Irish music. He died in 2004 at the age of fifty. Donaghy was the author of four volumes of poetry: Shibboleth (1988), Errata (1993), Conjure (2000), and Safest, which was published posthumously in 2005. His poetry received numerous awards, including the Geoffrey Faber and Forward prizes.
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Michael Donaghy was born to Irish parents, and grew up amongst the Irish community in the Bronx, New York. He studied at Fordham, and began a PhD at the University of Chicago. Becoming dismayed with academia (of his experiences at the time, he wrote 'gradually I became aware that professing English because I loved poems was like practising vivisection because I loved dogs'), he dropped out of the PhD program to pursue a career in writing and in traditional Irish music. In Chicago he met his future partner, Maddy Paxman, and joined her in London in the mid-1980s. Here he spent the rest of his life, writing, teaching and playing music. In September 2004, Donaghy died of a brain haemorrhage. He was fifty years old. At the time of his death he had long been in the front rank of British poets, a hugely popular performer (who would always recite entirely form memory), and an influential teacher. Donaghy published only three volumes of poetry in his lifetime: Shibboleth (1988), Errata (1993) and Conjure (2000). Safest, his final collection, was published posthumously in 2005. The paperback edition of his Collected Poems, including some previously unseen work, will be published in October 2014.