A Poetry Translation Centre pamphlet.

The poet

Coral Bracho as born in Mexico City in 1951. Her six collections to date have established her as one of the leading figures in contemporary Mexican poetry. She was awarded the Premio Nacional de Poesía Aguascalientes forEl ser que va a morir (The Being that Is Going to Die, 1982), and the Premio Xavier Villaurrutia for Ese espacio, ese jardín (That Space, That Garden, 2003). She is a member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte. 

The translators

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 TS 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.

Tom Boll teaches in the department of Spanish and Spanish American Studies at King's College London. His Octavio Paz and T.S. Eliot: Modern Poetry and the Translation of Influence was published by Legenda in 2010.