Fifty Fifty

Robyn Marsack began her long association with Carcanet Press by editing the first edition of Edmund Blunden's Selected Poems in 1982, and worked as a publishers' editor until she became Director of the Scottish Poetry Library 2000-2016. She was a Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at the University of Glasgow 2016-2018. She has co-edited several poetry anthologies, including OxfordPoets 2013 with Iain Galbraith, and has edited for Carcanet Blunden's Fall In, Ghosts: selected war prose (2014) , a new edition of Blunden's Selected Poems (2018) and the volume of letters celebrating the 50th anniversary of Carcanet Press, Fifty Fifty (2019).


Michael Schmidt FRSL, poet, scholar, critic and translator, was born in Mexico in 1947; he studied at Harvard and at Wadham College, Oxford, before settling in England. Among his many publications are several collections of poems and a novel, The Colonist (1981), about a boy's childhood in Mexico. He is general editor of PN Review and founder as well as managing director of Carcanet Press. He lives in Manchester.