Iain Galbraith

Iain Galbraith’s poems have appeared in the TLS, Poetry Review, PN Review, Edinburgh Review, New Writing and many other journals and books. A winner of the John Dryden Translation Prize and the Stephen Spender Prize for Poetry Translation he is also the editor of five poetry anthologies, while his recent translated books include a selection of W.G. Sebald’s poetry, Across the Land and the Water (2011), John Burnside’s selected poems in German, Versuch über das Licht (2011), and Jan Wagner’s Self-portrait with a Swarm of Bees (2015). He is an occasional lecturer, and in 2014-15 taught Poetics of Translation at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. He grew up in Scotland and now lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.