was born in 1945, grew up in London and studied at Cambridge where he still lives and teaches. Four collections of his poetry have been published by Carcanet Press. A freelance writer and lecturer, he has co-translated the Hungarian poets György Petri and Miklós Radnóti, edited prose works by Thom Gunn and Donald Davie and anthologised the writings of John Ruskin,William Morris and D.G. Rossetti. His critical writings appear in several periodicals, notably the TLS and PN Review. Other publications include Cambridge Observed: An Anthologyand Poets Talking, a collection of BBC interviews with contemporary poets.