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Jamie McKendrick

Jamie McKendrick was born in Liverpool in 1955. He is author of seven collections of poetry and has won the Forward Prize for Best Collection ( The Marble Fly , 1997), the Hawthornden Prize ( Out There , 2012) and the Cholmondeley Award (2019). He has been shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Forward Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award. His translations of Valerio Magrelli's poetry ( The Embrace , 2009) won the Oxford-Weidenfeld and the John Florio prizes.