One of the Arab world’s leading intellectuals, Sabry Hafez is Research Professor of Modern Arabic at the School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS). He has published numerous books and articles in both Arabic and English. His translations of poetry into Arabic, including T S Eliot, have had a significant effect on the development of […]
Nukhbah Langah was born in Pakistan and came to the UK to complete her PhD on contemporary Siraiki poetry at the University of Leeds. She has returned to Pakistan and is now teaching in the English faculty of Forman Christian College University (FCCU) in Lahore.
Senior Fellow in Persian at SOAS, Narguess is an expert on classical and contemporary Persian poetry who specialises in translation.
Poet, translator, and filmmaker Shook was raised in Mexico City. They earned a BA at the University of Oklahoma and an MSt at Oxford University. In their debut collection, Our Obsidian Tongues (2013), Shook explores the violence and hunger of everyday life, steeping their poems in lush imagery and sensory detail. In 2013, they founded […]
Tuvya Ruebner was awarded the Israel Prize for Poetry in February 2008. This prize is awarded for a life-time contribution to a particular field and is the highest accolade the state of Israel can bestow. The jury awarding the Israel Prize wrote: ‘Tuvya Ruebner has been one of the foremost Hebrew poets for five decades […]
Pedro Serrano has published five collections of poems: El miedo (Fear) México El Tucán de Virginia, 1986; Ignorancia (Ignorance) México El Equilibrista, 1994; Tres poemas (Three poems) Caracas Pequeña Venecia, 2000; Turba (Peat) Ediciones sin Nombre, Mexico, 2005; and Desplazamientos (Displacements), Editorial Candaya – Candaya Poesia 5 (2007). His latest collection of poems, Nueces was […]
Tom Boll completed his PhD on Octavio Paz and T. S. Eliot in 2005. He has taught in the departments of English and Spanish and Latin American Studies at University College London. His translations have been published by Mango Press and Poetry Review. He was the Assistant Director of the Poetry Translation Centre from 2004 […]
David Huerta was born in Mexico City in 1949, and passed away in 2022. He was one the leading poets of the generation that first came to prominence during the 1970s in Mexico. He published his first book of poems, El Jardín de la luz [The Garden of Light] (1972), while still a student in […]
Katherine Pierpoint was born in Northampton in 1961. Her first collection of poetry Truffle Beds (Faber, 1995) won a Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. She was Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Kent at Canterbury and in 2006 was poet-in-residence at the King’s School Canterbury. Katherine’s […]
Jamie McKendrick was born in Liverpool in 1955. He has published five collections of poetry including The Marble Fly (1997), winner of the Forward Prize for best collection, Ink Stone (2003) and Crocodiles & Obelisks (2007). His selected poems, Sky Nails,was published in 2000. He edited The Faber Book of 20th-Century Italian Poems (2004) and […]