James Michie
James Michie /ˈmɪki/[1] (1927–2007) was a British poet and translator of Latin poets, including The Odes of Horace, The Poems of Catullus, and The Epigrams of Martial. He was director of the Bodley Head Ltd., a British publishing company, and lecturer at London University. His Collected Poems won the 1995 Hawthornden Prize.[2]
He caused controversy in 2004 when his poem, Friendly Fire, was published in The Spectator (under then editor Boris Johnson).[3] The poem, purporting to be satirical, was a scathing attack on Scotland and the Scottish people from the perspective of an Englishman advocating the cultural and physical genocide of the people of Scotland.[4]
References
- ^ "Mind Your Language: Dot Wordsworth continues her look at BBC booklets on pronunciation published in the 1930s"
- ^ Euripides Helen 019802035X 1981 "His collaborator, James Michie, is presently a Director of the Bodley Head in London. He holds an MA. in Classics and English Literature from Oxford University. His publications include a book of poems, Possible Laughter (1959), and translations of various Latin poets, The Odes of Horace, The Poems of Catullus, and The Epigrams of Martial. "
- ^ https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-23573981.html
- ^ http://www.badeagle.com/cgi-bin/ib3/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=35;t=2757;view=new
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