Peter Dale worked as a secondary school teacher until his retirement. He is renowned for his translations from French (Corbiere, Laforgue, Valery and Villon) and Italian (a complete terza rima version of Dante's 'Divine Comedy'). He now lives in Cardiff.
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'Dale's lyric style is intensely intimate whilst avoiding the histrionic pitfalls of the confessional mode. His formidable formal control is similarly understated, living up to his own injunction that "a poet shouldn't draw attention to his stylistic self; the poem should be a lens through which something crucial is seen."' Esther Morgan 'Peter Dale is the most underrated poet of his generation' Michael Donaghy