The Very Selected: Michael Schmidt anthology to the interior lives of

to the interior lives of the characters that people her poems

antanaclasis

and psychologically

At the heart of these imagined scenes the long title poem

The Very Selected: Michael Schmidt anthology to the interior lives ofMichael Schmidt was born in Mexico in 1947. He is a founder (1969) and editorial and managing director of Carcanet Press Limited, and a founder (1972) and general editor of PN Review. An anthologist, translator, critic and literary historian, he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and received an O. B. E. in 2006 for services to poetry. This pamphlet draws together the best of his work.