Jamie McKendrick reads for Poets & Players as part of the MLF at the Whitworth on 12 October 2019
Channel: Poets & Players
Date: 2019-10-16

Jamie McKendrick is the author of seven collections of poetry, including The Marble Fly (1997), winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection and a Poetry Book Society Choice; Ink Stone (2003), shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award; and Crocodiles & Obelisks (2007), shortlisted for the Forward Prize. Out There (2012) won the Hawthornden Prize.

His most recent collection is Anomaly (2018). An earlier selection of his poems was published as Sky Nails (2000), and he is editor of 20th-Century Italian Poems (2004). The Embrace (2009), his translations of Valerio Magrelli’s poetry, won the Oxford-Weidenfeld and the John Florio prizes, and his translations of Antonella Anedda’s poems, Archipelago (2014), also won the John Florio prize. His Selected Poems was published in 2016. McKendrick’s translation of Giorgio Bassani’s masterwork The Novel of Ferrara is published by Penguin/Norton in 2018.