Michael Glover (author)
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Michael Glover (born Sheffield, Yorkshire[1]) is an author, London-based poet, art critic, fiction writer and magazine editor.
Education[edit]
Michael Glover was educated at Firth Park Grammar School[1] and read English at Queens' College, Cambridge.[2]
Career[edit]
Glover is the Poetry Editor of The Tablet and a senior art critic and feature writer for The Independent. He has been a regular reviewer and commentator upon the world of poetry for The Times, the New Statesman and The Economist.[2] He has written about poetry in performance for the Financial Times. He is also a London correspondent for ArtNews, New York City. In 2009 he established The Bow-Wow Shop, a free-to-access, online poetry magazine which has been archived by the British Library. [2]
He wrote the Headlong Into Pennilessness memoir about growing up in a working-class suburb of Sheffield in the 1950s. Sebastian Barker, former chairman of the Poetry Society and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, called it "charming and fascinating".[3] Bill Hamilton, literary agent of author Hilary Mantel, describes it as a "vivid and true" picture of the kinds of life endured by tens of thousands of working-class families struggling to make ends meet in Northern Britain in the post-war austerity years.[4]
Poetry collections[edit]
- Measured Lives (Dagger Press, 1994)
- Impossible Horizons (Sinclair-Stevenson, 1995)
- A Small Modicum of Folly (Dagger Press, 1997)
- The Bead-Eyed Man (Dagger Press, 1999)
- Amidst All This Debris (Dagger Press, 2001)
- For The Sheer Hell Of Living (San Marco Press, 2008)
- Only So Much (Savage Poets Collective, 2011)
- Hypothetical May Morning (1889 books, 2018)
- Messages to Federico (1889 books, 2018)
Other works[edit]
- Headlong into Pennilessness (ACM Retro, 2011)
- Great Works: Encounters with Art (Prestel, 2016)
- Playing Out in the Wireless Days (1889 Books, 2017)
- 111 Places in Sheffield You Should Not Miss (Emons, 2017)
- Late Days (1889 Books, 2018)
References[edit]
- ^ a b Savage Poets Collective Archived 2012-03-11 at the Wayback Machine, ACM Retro Ltd. Retrieved 2011-11-08
- ^ a b c Bio: Michael Glover, The International Literary Quarterly. Retrieved 2011-11-08.
- ^ "Critics praise for Sheffield author", The Star, 26 November 2012.
- ^ "Critics praise for Sheffield author", The Star, 26 November 2012.