Jamie McKendrick

Jamie McKendrick (born in 1955) is an award-winning British poet.

Life
McKendrick was born in Liverpool in 1955.

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

Recognition
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.

Awards
Other awards that he has won include:
 * 2010 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize for Valerio Magrelli’s The Embrace
 * 2003 Society of Authors Travel Award
 * 1994 Southern Arts Literature Award
 * 1991 Arts Council Writers' Award
 * 1984 Eric Gregory Award

In addition his collections have been shortlisted for various awards, including the 2003 T.S. Eliot Prize and the 2003 Whitbread Poetry Award.

Publications

 * The Sirocco Room. Oxford, UK, & New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
 * The Kiosk on the Brink. Oxford, UK, & New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
 * The Marble Fly. Oxford, UK, & New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
 * Sky Nails: Poems 1979-1997. London & New York: Faber & Faber, 2000.
 * Ink Stone. London & New York: Faber & Faber, 2003.
 * Crocodiles and Obelisks.London: Faber & Faber, 2007.
 * Out There. London: Faber & Faber, 2012.

Translated

 * The Faber Books of 20th-century Italian Poems. London: Faber & Faber, 2004.
 * Giorgio Bassani, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis. London & New York: Penguin Books, 2007.
 * Valerio Magrelli, The Embrace: Selected poems. London: Faber and Faber, 2009.
 * Valerio Magrelli, Vanishing points: Poems. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2010.
 * Pier Paolo Passolini, Fabrication = Affabulazione. London: Oberon Books, 2010.
 * Giorgio Bassani, The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles. London & New York: Penguin, 2012.

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