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born 1947 United Kingdom
Michael Schmidt (born 2 March 1947 in Mexico City) is a Mexican-British poet, author and scholar. He is currently Professor of Poetry at Glasgow University.
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A poem works or fails to work; no amount of argufying can convert an experienced reader.
Getting poetry published', in, Writer's and Artist's Yearbook (2004)
A living poem can energise another poem at five hundred years distance, or across the other side of the world.
Poetry is a collaborative art, and yet—as it is being created—the most solitary and 'individual' of activities.
In poetry much of the sense and most of the pleasure resides in the sounds the poem make.
Poetry is a process, a form of discovery, which if it serves a cause, transcends it.
Prose uses the medium of language whilst poetry serves language and explores it.
The reader does not need a technical vocabulary to read poetry, only a voice in the head or out loud which can deliver the sounds.
What matters in poetry is form, how words work together, the sounds and silences their combinations make. The ordered effects they produce on the attentive hearer.
Poetry is a language with a shape
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