The Very Selected: Michael Schmidt anthology Another abiding concern is a

Another abiding concern is a fascination with war in all of its manifestations in the bloody 20th century

Such is its impact that it is impossible to imagine that it has never been done before

and psychologically

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At the heart of these imagined scenes the long title poem

The Very Selected: Michael Schmidt anthology Another abiding concern is aMichael Schmidt was born in Mexico in 1947. He is a founder (1969) and editorial and managing director of Carcanet Press Limited, and a founder (1972) and general editor of PN Review. An anthologist, translator, critic and literary historian, he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and received an O. B. E. in 2006 for services to poetry. This pamphlet draws together the best of his work.