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The Tightrope Wedding
Michael Laskey
The Tightrope Wedding was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and shortlisted for T S Eliot Prize.
Michael Laskey's first collection, Thinking of Happiness (Peterloo Poets, 1991) received critical acclaim:
This long-awaited second collection is more technically assured and more wide-ranging in its concerns, but equally affirmative.
"What impresses about the poems is their desire not to impress, to move towards their seemingly inevitable endings without any fuss or bother. The actual and uninvented assumes authentic significance… There is a measured grace at work." – Charles Bennett
"Michael Laskey is his own man, so when I compare him to Larkin and Heaney, it is merely to set him in the company where he rightly belongs…" – Craig Raine
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Shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize and twice a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, Michael Laskey is widely regarded as one of Britain's most intelligent, insightful and sympathetic poets. Michael founded the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival in 1988, and since 1991 has been co-editor of Smiths Knoll magazine. He lives in Suffolk, where he is a freelance writer and tutor. First published in 1999, The Tightrope Wedding is a classic collection, now in its fourth printing.
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