Michael Hofmann

Michael Hofmann was born in Germany, and grew up in England, Scotland, and the United States. He has published six books of poems, most recently One Lark, One Horse, and three books of criticism, most recently Messing About in Boats, his 2019 Clarendon Lectures. He has edited the Faber Book of 20 th Century German Poems, and made personal selections from Robert Lowell, John Berryman and W.S. Graham. He has translated many books from the German, and taught for years at the University of Florida. In 2023, he was Seamus Heaney Visiting Poetry Fellow at Queen’s University, Belfast.