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Mick Imlah dies, aged 52
January 13, 2009
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The Scottish poet Mick Imlah, whose volume of poetry, The Lost Leader, won the 2008 Forward prize for best collection and was shortlisted for this year’s TS Eliot prize, has died, aged 52.
The Lost Leader was only the second collection of poetry from Imlah, who was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in December 2007. His first volume, Birthmarks, was published in 1988 — a full 20 years earlier — to critical acclaim: reviewing it in the Times Literary Supplement, Neil Corcoran described him as “a poet of striking originality and cunning, a genuinely distinctive voice in the murmur and babble of the contemporary”.Read the full article here.
Source: guardian.co.uk, 12 January 2008
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