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The Tightrope Wedding
Michael Laskey
£6.95
978-1-902382-07-4
SHORTLISTED FOR THE T S ELIOT PRIZE A POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION
Michael Laskey’s first collection, Thinking of Happiness (Peterloo Poets, 1991) received critical acclaim:
‘Fluent, likeable, user-friendly poems’ – Fleur Adcock, Sunday Times
‘There is an engaging warmth in these poems, and a remarkable imagination’ – William Scammell, Independent on Sunday
‘A sustaining book, sensitive in insight and cadence’ – Michael Hulse, Poetry Review
‘An unflinching celebration’ – Tessa Lewis, PN Review
This long-awaited second collection is more technically assured and more wide-ranging in its concerns, but equally affirmative.
Michael Laskey works as a poet in schools and a writing tutor for adults. He is well known as a champion of contemporary poetry: co-editing the poetry magazine Smiths Knoll and co-ordinating the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival, which he founded in 1989.
He is married to a GP and has lived in the same Suffolk town for over twenty years. He has been mainly responsible for looking after their three sons.
