James Michie

James Michie /ˈmɪki/[1] (24 June 1927–30 October 2007) was a British poet and translator of Latin poets, including The Odes of Horace, The Art of Love by Ovid, The Poems of Catullus, and The Epigrams of Martial. He was director of the Bodley Head Ltd., a British publishing company, and lecturer at London University. His Collected Poems won the 1995 Hawthornden Prize.[2]

For the Scottish painter, see James Coutts Michie.

He caused controversy in 2004 when his poem, Friendly Fire, was published in The Spectator (under then editor Boris Johnson).[3] The poem, purporting to be satirical, was a racist attack on the Scottish people from the perspective of an Englishman advocating the cultural and physical genocide of the people of Scotland. It specifically recommended the 'extermination' of all Scots.[4]

References
  1. "Mind Your Language: Dot Wordsworth continues her look at BBC booklets on pronunciation published in the 1930s"
  2. Euripides Helen 019802035X 1981 "His collaborator, James Michie, is presently a Director of the Bodley Head in London. He holds an MA. in Classics and English Literature from Oxford University. His publications include a book of poems, Possible Laughter (1959), and translations of various Latin poets, The Odes of Horace, The Poems of Catullus, and The Epigrams of Martial. "
  3. Outrage at Spectator's poetic attack on Scots, The Herald, August 13, 2004
  4. http://www.badeagle.com/cgi-bin/ib3/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=35;t=2757;view=new
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