Michael Glover (born Sheffield, Yorkshire[1]) is an author, London-based poet, art critic, fiction writer and magazine editor.
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.
In 2009 he established The Bow-Wow Shop, a free-to-access, online poetry magazine which has been archived by the British Library.
[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.