When Michael Donaghy died in 2004 - unexpectedly at the tragically young age of 50, of a brain aneurism - the world lost one of its best-loved poets.
Michael was not only a brilliant, prize-laden poet and performer of his own work, but a great teacher and inspirer of others. Now we have collected together all his mature work, including around 20 previously unpublished pieces. We have commissioned a major critical essay from pre-eminent poetry critic, Sean O'Brien, for this hugely important book by a writer who will come to be regarded as a late-modern metaphysical, and one of the representative voices of the age. Michael Donaghy was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1954. In 1985 he moved to London, where he worked as a teacher and traditional Irish musician. He died in 2004.
