Background
He was born in Aberdeen and educated at Charterhouse and Christ Church, Oxford.
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Lachlan Mackinnon
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Christ Church.
Career
His output to date includes four collections of poetry, two critical studies and a biography. He also reviews regularly for, among others, The Times Literary Supplement. Critics have identified the influence of the American poet Robert Lowell in Mackinnon"s first two collections, Monterey Cypress and The Coast of Bohemia, published within three years of one another.
His third collection, The Jupiter Collisions, contains, among others, two sequence-poems, and has among its subjects retrospective contemplation of the author"s childhood and adolescence, both in personal details and in the context of the "Sixties (rock music, space travel, Minimalist art).
One of his most famous papers include "prime numbers." The collection also affords a small number of poems in sonnet form, despite the poet"s tendency towards vers-libre, thereby combining the legacy of Lowell with that of Auden. In 2010 he published Small Hours with Faber.This includes "The Book of Emma", a long poem addressed to a dead friend and written largely in prose.
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