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Mick Imlah


Born
in Milngavie, Scotland
September 26, 1956

Died
January 12, 2009

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Michael Ogilvie Imlah, better known as Mick Imlah, was a Scottish poet and editor.

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 was editor of Poetry Review from 1983-6, and worked at the Times Literary Supplement from 1992.

His collection The Lost Leader (2008) won the Forward Prize for Best Collection, and was shortlisted for the 2009 International Griffin Poetry Prize.

Imlah died in January 2009 aged 52 as a result of motor neurone disease. He was diagnosed with this disease in December of 2007.

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