Michael Glover (author)

Michael Glover (born Sheffield, Yorkshire[1]) is an author, London-based poet, art critic, fiction writer and magazine editor.

Education

Michael Glover was educated at Firth Park Grammar School[1] and read English at Queens’ College, Cambridge.[2]

Career

Glover has contributed regularly to The Independent, The Times, the Financial Times, the New Statesman and The Economist.[2] He is also a London correspondent for ArtNews, New York City, and editor of on-line international poetry forum The Bow-Wow Shop.[2] His seventh collection of poetry, Only So Much, was launched in September 2011 by the Sheffield-based Savage Poets Collective.

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

  • 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)
  • Headlong Into Pennilessness (ACM Retro, 2011)

References

  1. 1 2 Savage Poets Collective Archived 2012-03-11 at the Wayback Machine., ACM Retro Ltd. Retrieved 2011-11-08
  2. 1 2 3 Bio: Michael Glover, The International Literary Quarterly. Retrieved 2011-11-08.
  3. ↑ "Critics praise for Sheffield author", The Star, 26 November 2012.
  4. ↑ "Critics praise for Sheffield author", The Star, 26 November 2012.
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