James Crain Michie /ˈmɪki/[1] (24 June 1927 – 30 October 2007) was an English poet, translator and editor, of Scottish and American descent .
[4] Michie then joined John Lehmann's The London Magazine and the Workers' Educational Association, beginning a career in publishing.
[2] The texts that Michie translated included The Odes of Horace, The Art of Love by Ovid, The Poems of Catullus, The Epigrams of Martial and selections from La Fontaine's and Aesop's fables.
He was the editorial director of The Bodley Head, a British publishing company, and lecturer at London University.
[2][6] He caused controversy in 2004 when his poem, "Friendly Fire," was published in The Spectator under then-editor Boris Johnson.