Mick Imlah

Michael Ogilvie Imlah (26 September 1956 – 12 January 2009), better known as Mick Imlah, was a Scottish poet and editor.^[1]

Background

Imlah was brought up in Milngavie near Glasgow, before moving to Beckenham, Kent in 1966. He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he subsequently taught as a Junior Fellow. He revived the historic Oxford Poetry before editing Poetry Review from 1983-6, and then working at the Times Literary Supplement from 1992. His collection The Lost Leader (2008) won the Forward Prize for Best Collection^[2], and was shortlisted for the 2009 International Griffin Poetry Prize. Imlah died in January 2009 aged 52 as a result of motor neurone disease. He was diagnosed with this disease in December 2007.^[3] An issue of Oxford Poetry was dedicated to his memory.

Bibliography

As author

• The Zoologist’s Bath (Oxford: Sycamore Press, 1982), 15 pages, ISBN 978-0906003046
• Birthmarks, the first full book of his poetry (Chatto Windus, 1988), 56 pages, ISBN 978-0701133580
• Penguin New Poets 3: Glyn Maxwell, Mick Imlah, Peter Reading (1994), ISBN 978-0140587425
• Diehard, booklet (Clutag Press, 2006) ISBN 978-0954727598
• The Lost Leader, the second full book of his poetry before his death (Faber and Faber, 2008), ISBN 9780571243075

As editor

• Dr. Wortle's School by Anthony Trollope (Imlah wrote the introduction and notes; Penguin Classics, 1999), ISBN 978-0140434040
• The New Penguin Book of Scottish Verse (with Robert Crawford), 2000), ISBN 978-0140587111
• A Century of Poems (with Alan Jenkins), Times Supplements Ltd, 2002), 136 pp, ISBN 978-1841220642
• The TLS On Shakespeare (The Times, 2003), 178 pp, ISBN 978-1405838436
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Poems Selected by Mick Imlah (Faber and Faber, 2004), ISBN 978-0571207008
• Edwin Muir Selected Poems (Faber and Faber, 2008), ISBN 978-0571235476

References

1. ^ "Obituary: Mick Imlah". London: The Times. 2009-01-13. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article5503818.ece. Retrieved 2010-05-12. 
2. ^ Flood, Alison (2008-10-08). "Mick Imlah takes Forward prize after 20-year silence". London: guardian.co.uk. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/oct/08/forward.prize.mick.imlah. Retrieved 2009-01-09. 
3. ^ Crown, Sarah (2009-01-13). "Poet Mick Imlah dies, aged 52". London: The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jan/12/mick-imlah-poet-dies. Retrieved 2010-05-12. 

External links

• Imlah profile at the Poetry Archive
• "Mick Imlah: the lost talent" 27 November 2010. Guardian
• Griffin Poetry Prize biography, including video clip of reading of Imlah poem
• "Mick Imlah 1956–2009": a collection of poems by Imlah, reviews of his books and his own essays from TLS, January 12 2009
• Mick Imlah Poem in Qualm
• Late poet's Griffin nomination delights loved ones

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Date of birth	1956-09-26
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Date of death	2009-01-12
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