Patrick McGuinness is a writer and translator and teaches French and Comparative Literature at St Annes College, Oxford. Poetry collections include The Canals of Mars Carcanet, 2004 and Jilted City Carcanet, 2010. Prose work incldues The Last Hundred Days, Seren, 2011 (nominated for the Man Booker Prize), Other People's Countries: A Journey into Memory, Jonathan Cape, 2014 and Poetry and Radical Politics in Fin de Siecle France: From Anarchism to Action Francaise, OUP, 2015. He has transalted several poets from the french including Seizing: Places, Hélène Dorion (Arc, Todmorden, 2011) and For Anatole's Tomb, Stéphane Mallarmé (Carcanet, Manchester/ Routledge, New York, 2003), PBS Recommendation. He is the recipient of many awards including a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in 2012.