James Michie
James Michie 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.
He caused controversy in 2004 when his poem, Friendly Fire, was published in The Spectator. 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.
