Bad Dream

British, Lancashire-born poet, author, and translator. He is a Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford University. He was until recently the co-editor of the literary journal Modern Poetry in Translation. His collections of poetry include Madder, Watching for Dolphins, Caspar Hauser, The Pelt of Wasps, Something for the Ghosts, Collected Poems, and Nine Fathom Deep. He is a translator of Hölderlin, Brecht, Goethe, Kleist, Michaux, and Jaccottet. He is also author of one novel, Davies and Fields of Fire: A Life of Sir William Hamilton. He has published four collections of short stories, Back at the Spike, the highly acclaimed Under the Dam (2005), The Shieling (2009), and the award winning Tea at the Midland and Other Stories. He lives in Oxford with his wife Helen.