Yves Bonnefoy was named to the Collge de France in 1981 to fill the chair left vacant by the death of Roland Barthes and was the first poet honored in this way since Paul Valry. He is the author of six critically acclaimed books of poetry. Bonnefoy's poems have appeared in English in the New Yorker, Paris Review, Partisan Review , and other journals. He is the editor of Mythologies and author of In the Shadow's Light, The Act and the Place of Poetry, and The Lure and the Truth of Painting , all published by the University of Chicago Press. John Naughton is a professor of Romance languages and literatures at Colgate University. He is the principal translator of Bonnefoy's work into English. John Naughton is a professor of Romance languages and literatures at Colgate University. He is the principal translator of Bonnefoy's work into English.

Stephen Romer was born in Hertfordshire in 1957 and read English at Cambridge. Since 1981 he has lived in France, where he is Matre de Confrences at Tours University. He has held Visiting Fellowships at Oxford and Cambridge and has taught in the US. He has published four full collections, including Yellow Studio (2008), shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. He translates widely from the French, and has edited the Faber anthology Twentieth-Century French Poems . Recently he has published translations of Yves Bonnefoy's The Arrire-pays (2012) and an anthology French Decadent Tales (2013).

His poetry is described in the British Council Writers Directory and in Poetry International, and he has recorded a selection for the Poetry Archive. He was elected FRSL in 2011. Anthony Rudolf is the author of literary criticism (on Primo Levi, Piotr Rawicz and others), autobiography ( Silent Conversations ) poetry, and translator of French poetry (Bonnefoy, Vige, Jabs), Russian (Vinokourov and Tvardovsky). He has been Paula Rego's companion and model since 1996. Rudolf is the founder of Menard Press. He was Visiting Lecturer in Arts and Humanities at London Metropolitan University (2000-2003) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.