at Oxford Brookes University from 2002-2005. Fiona Sampson is internationally recognised for her pioneering residencies in health care and contributes to The Guardian, The Irish Times and other publications. Her translations include Jaan Kaplinski, an anthology of younger Central European poets, and Orient Express, of which she was founding editor. She was the editor of Poetry Review from 2005 to 2012. She gave the 2010 Newcastle Poetry Lectures under the title ‘Music Lessons’. In 2009, she received a Cholmondeley Award and became a Fellow of the Royal Society for Literature.
GE O R GE SZI RT E S George Szirtes is a Hungarian born British poet, writing in English, as well as a translator from the Hungarian language into English. Szirtes has lived in the United Kingdom for most of his life. Born in Budapest on 29 November 1948, Szirtes came to England as a refugee in 1956 aged 8. He was brought up in London and studied Fine Art in London and Leeds. His poems began appearing in national magazines in 1973 and his first book, The Slant Door, was published in 1979. It won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize the following year. He has won a variety of prizes for his work, most
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