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By Michael Donaghy

whilst Michael Donaghy died in 2004 on the age of 50, he used to be one of many UK’s best-known and best-loved poets; he used to be additionally a literary critic of the 1st rank. Donaghy’s prose is remarkable for a similar delightfully lucid variety and frivolously worn erudition so fashionable in his verse. His used to be additionally the main intellectually promiscuous of minds, and he was once chuffed to allude to Irish song, neuroscience and Renaissance artwork within the similar breath – and infrequently resisted a superb comic story, if it served his argumentative objective. This significant other quantity to the Collected Poems gathers jointly the easiest of his writing on poetry and the humanities, in addition to a couple of attention-grabbing and revealing interviews. It additionally reprints his vintage primer in ars poetica, ‘Wallflowers’.

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