Weighing the Present

Michael Laskey has published three pamphlets and four books of poems including his widely-admired New & Selected Poems in 2008, The Man Alone. He has been shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize and his books have twice been PBS recommendations. Michael co-edited Smiths Knoll for 21 years and co-founded the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival in 1988, which he directed through its first decade, and with which he is still associated. He works as a writing tutor with a wide range of adult groups and in schools at all levels. He lives in Suffolk.