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Permission to Breathe by Michael Laskey

'In Permission to Breathe, Michael Laskey shows
himself to be our poetic Alan Bennett – a genius
of, as it were, biscuit barrels and wry grief.
Unflinching, subtle, clear, emotionally precise,
uncensored, touching, occasionally erotic,
particular, these are very, very good poems that should win all the prizes.’ – Craig Raine

‘[he displays] originality of thought and quality of execution’ – Robert Potts, The Guardian

Michael Laskey was born in 1944, read English at Cambridge, and taught in Spain and England for ten years. He lives in Suffolk, where he works as a freelance writer, leading workshops with adult groups and in schools. An associate tutor at
UEA, he also teaches regularly for the Arvon
Foundation and the Open College of the Arts.
Well known as a champion of contemporary
poetry, he founded the international Aldeburgh
Poetry Festival in 1989 and directed it through its
first decade; and he has co-edited the poetry
magazine Smiths Knoll since 1991.

He has published two pamphlets – Cloves of
Garlic (1988) and In the Fruit Cage (1997) – and
two full collections, both Poetry Book Society
Recommendations: Thinking of Happiness
(Peterloo, 1991) and The Tightrope Wedding
(Smith/Doorstop, 1999) which was also
shortlisted for the T S Eliot Memorial Prize.

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