Mick Imlah

Although poet Mick Imlah was born in Aberdeen, he was raised in Glasgow and later in Kent. He studied and then taught at Magdalen College, Oxford. He is now Poetry Editor of the Times Literary Supplement, having previously been editor of The Poetry Review.

As well as his own collections, including The Zoologist’s Bath, Birthmarks and most recently The Lost Leader – for which he won the 2008 Forward Prize for Poetry – Imlah has edited The New Penguin Book of Scottish Verse with Robert Crawford, and has edited several collections for Faber & Faber.

Imlah died in January 2009, having been diagnosed with motor neuron disease in 2007.