Mick Imlah dies, aged 52

January 13, 2009 The Lost Leader was only the second collection of poetry from Imlah, who was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in December 2007. His first volume, Birthmarks, was published in 1988 — a full 20 years earlier — to critical acclaim: reviewing it in the Times Literary Supplement, Neil Corcoran described him as “a poet of striking originality and cunning, a genuinely distinctive voice in the murmur and babble of the contemporary”.

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