Smith

A Reader's Guide to the Poetry of Michael Donaghy

von Don Paterson

240 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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 therest 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.