New Poetries VI: An Anthology

Michael Schmidt is editorial and managing director of Carcanet Press which he founded with friends in 1969. He has also been the managing editor of PN Review since 1972. He is a literary historian, poet, novelist and translator, a Professor of Poetry, and a writer in residence at St John’s College, Cambridge.

Helen Tookey lives in Liverpool, where she teaches creative writing at Liverpool John Moores University. Her first full-length collection of poetry, Missel-Child, was published by Carcanet in 2014; her other publications include Anaïs Nin, Fictionality and Femininity (Oxford University Press) and, co-edited with Bryan Biggs, Malcolm Lowry: From the Mersey to the World (Liverpool University Press).