Mick Imlah
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Scottish poet
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Michael Ogilvie Imlah , better known as Mick Imlah, was a Scottish poet and editor. Background Imlah was brought up in Milngavie near Glasgow, before moving to Beckenham, Kent, in 1966. He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he subsequently taught as a Junior Fellow. He helped revive the historic Oxford Poetry before editing Poetry Review from 1983–6, and then worked at the Times Literary Supplement from 1992. His collection The Lost Leader won the Forward Prize for Best Collection, and was shortlisted for the 2009 International Griffin Poetry Prize.
