Great Regulars: Mick Imlah, who has died at the age of 52,

was one of those rare figures in British poetry: a truly literary protagonist. Part of a generation for whom it became fashionable to disavow literary seriousness--in CVs which instead drew attention to any other feature of the poet's life--Imlah, while popular and gregarious, committed his working life to very best practice. With his death we've lost not only a major poet but a major editor, too.

from Fiona Sampson: The Guardian: Books blog: Mick Imlah's death is a multiple loss to poetry

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