Michael Mackmin
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Michael Mackmin | |
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| Born | 1941 (age 83–84) |
| Known for | Founding and editing The Rialto |
Michael Mackmin (born 1941)[1] is a British poet and editor.[2][3] He was a founding, and is now the sole, editor of poetry magazine The Rialto.[4][5][6][7]
Mackmin's first poetry collection, The Play of Rainbow, was published in January 1970.[8] Mackmin had submitted it to the publishers, Cape Goliard Press, whose acceptance of it marked the first time they had ever taken an unsolicited manuscript.[8] They described Mackmin as having "absorbed himself in the best of the English lyrical tradition while at the same time attuning himself to the finest contemporary lyrical writers of England and America."[8] His poetry has also been published in magazines including Transatlantic Review[9] and THE SHOp: A Magazine of Poetry.[10]
In 1978, Mackmin published The Connemara Shore.[11]
In 1994, words by Mackmin accompanied photographs by Patrick Sutherland in a Maidstone exhibition exploring the changing face of Kent.[12]
In 2006, Mackin's Twenty-Three Poems, was published by HappenStance.[11][13] From There to Here (2011), also published by HappenStance,[3] was described in Ambit as "a beautiful little book", and its poems as "meandering and direct, magical and realistic at the same time".[14]