Michael Glover (born Sheffield, Yorkshire^[1]) is an author, London-based poet, art critic, fiction writer and magazine editor.

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Michael Glover was educated at Firth Park Grammar School^[1] and read English at Queens' College, Cambridge.^[2]

Glover is the Poetry Editor of The Tablet and a senior art critic and feature writer for The Independent. He has been a regular reviewer and commentator upon the world of poetry for The Times, the New Statesman and The Economist.^[2] He has written about poetry in performance for the Financial Times. He is also a London correspondent for ArtNews, New York City. In 2009 he established The Bow-Wow Shop, a free-to-access, online poetry magazine which has been archived by the British Library. ^[2]

He wrote the Headlong Into Pennilessness memoir about growing up in a working-class suburb of Sheffield in the 1950s. Sebastian Barker, former chairman of the Poetry Society and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, called it "charming and fascinating".^[3] Bill Hamilton, literary agent of author Hilary Mantel, describes it as a "vivid and true" picture of the kinds of life endured by tens of thousands of working-class families struggling to make ends meet in Northern Britain in the post-war austerity years.^[4]

• Measured Lives (Dagger Press, 1994)
• Impossible Horizons (Sinclair-Stevenson, 1995)
• A Small Modicum of Folly (Dagger Press, 1997)
• The Bead-Eyed Man (Dagger Press, 1999)
• Amidst All This Debris (Dagger Press, 2001)
• For The Sheer Hell Of Living (San Marco Press, 2008)
• Only So Much (Savage Poets Collective, 2011)
• Hypothetical May Morning (1889 books, 2018)
• Messages to Federico (1889 books, 2018)

• Headlong into Pennilessness (ACM Retro, 2011)
• Great Works: Encounters with Art (Prestel, 2016)
• Playing Out in the Wireless Days (1889 Books, 2017)
• 111 Places in Sheffield You Should Not Miss (Emons, 2017)
• Late Days (1889 Books, 2018)