Michael Hofmann
...College, Cambridge from 1979 to 1983. Since 1983 he has worked as a freelance writer, translator and reviewer. Hofmann has translated work by Bertolt Brecht, Joseph Roth, Patrick Süskind, Herta...
Sylvia Legris
...urges and the compulsion to tic the compulsion to tic the compulsion … Are you dreaming? Are you sleeping? (Dormez-vous? Dormez-cheep-cheep …) Copyright © Sylvia Legris, 2005 from Strange Birds;...
Paul Farley
Paul Farley won the Arvon Poetry Competition Competition in 1996. His first poetry collection, The Boy From the Chemist is Here to See You (1998), won the Forward Poetry Prize...
Priscila Uppal
...Every poem in her book comes as a surprise, and that includes the free translation of the Anglo-Saxon poem ‘The Wanderer’ with which the book concludes, and which in her...
Don McKay
...for submitting to and revelling in the musical phrases and cadences of language while never coming loose from meaning and sense. So simultaneously his poems succeed at both the intellectual...
Nicole Brossard
...on every word that comes to her, and turned a demanding ear to each item of punctuation or notation. Over her four decades of writing and publishing poems and novels...
Erín Moure
...freelance editor and communications specialist in Montreal. Notebook of Roses and Civilization 2008 Shortlist Coach House Books, Canada Purchase Little Theatres 2006 Shortlist House of Anansi, Canada Purchase Sheep’s Vigil...
Cesar Vallejo
...The result has been the wonderfully rendered complete work of a very complex poet in terms of imagination and style, of multilayered registers – a poet who aspires to wholeness...