Michael Schmidt

In 1969 the poet Roy Fuller , about to lecture on syllabics at Oxford and planning to centre his remarks on Marianne Moore , discovered just in time how important ED 's experiments were in...

Some years later Michael Schmidt , who founded Carcanet in Oxford before moving it to Manchester, commented that Jennings was the highest-selling poet on his list, and one of the highest in the country.

ED 's Times obituary called her a self-possessed traditionalist, unimpressed by the twentieth century, with a clear mind, an agile and introspective wit, and nobility of rhythm,but with no gift for metaphor and other...

Every Changing Shape was reprinted in 1996 by Carcanet Press with a foreword by Michael Schmidt . It collects essays on Christian writers and mystics that address the way that faith informs the creative imagination...

After this EJS issued no further collection for more than a quarter of a century. She was, she said, afraid of repeating herself or of writing a fake mystical poem. In the interim she turned...

EJ had the habit of sending quantities of undifferentiated manuscripts to her Carcanet Press editor, Michael Schmidt , for him to sort, select, and arrange for print.She left a vast body of correspondence...