The title of Michael Haslam's new poetry collection, A Sinner Saved by Grace, comes from the inscription on a lonely and isolated gravestone the poet came across while walking on the moors above his home in the Calder Valley.
"A publication of Michael Haslam is an event of some significance," wrote David Herd, former co-editor of Poetry Review. "He is a poet whose whose music has long been fully - wonderfully - developed - it reminds one of what poetry capable."
Since the 1960s, Michael Haslam has been widely published in the network associated with the Cambridge School of Poetry, and in 1995 his collected poems, A Whole Bauble, were published by Carcanet. He has worked as a labourer for most of his life and is currently employed in a textile factory in Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire.
"A publication of Michael Haslam is an event of some significance," wrote David Herd, former co-editor of Poetry Review. "He is a poet whose whose music has long been fully - wonderfully - developed - it reminds one of what poetry capable."
Since the 1960s, Michael Haslam has been widely published in the network associated with the Cambridge School of Poetry, and in 1995 his collected poems, A Whole Bauble, were published by Carcanet. He has worked as a labourer for most of his life and is currently employed in a textile factory in Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire.