Michael Schmidt OBE FRSL is the founder and editorial and managing director of Carcanet Press Limited, the general editor of PN Review and Professor of Poetry and convenor of the Creative Writing programme at the University of Glasgow. He is currently engaged in writing Lives of the Novelists, a companion volume to Lives of the Poets. His most recent anthology The Great Modern Poets was published by Quercus. The Harvill Book of Twentieth Century Poetry in English (1999) remains a controversial reading of the last century. His collection of poems The Resurrection of the Body was published in January 2007 in the United Kingdom and in March 2007 in the United States.
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