Jamie McKendrick

Jamie McKendrick (born in 1955) is an English poet.

Early life and education

McKendrick was born in Liverpool in 1955.

Poetry

McKendrick has published five collections of poetry. He is the editor of The Faber Book of 20th-Century Italian Poems (2004).

Awards

McKendrick was named as one of the Poetry Society's 'New Generation' poets in the 1990s, with the Society selecting his 1997 collection Marble Fly as a Poetry Society Book Choice. Marble Fly also won the 'Best Poetry Collection of the Year' award at the Forward Poetry Prize ceremony.

Other awards include:

His collections have been shortlisted for the 2003 T. S. Eliot Prize and the 2003 Whitbread Poetry Award.

Published collections

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