Christopher Middleton (1926-2015) was born in Truro, Cornwall. He studied at Merton College, Oxford, before teaching at the University of Zurich, at King's College, London, and as Professor of Germanic Languages at the University of Texas, Austin. He published translations of Robert Walser, Nietzsche, Holderlin, Goethe, Gert Hofmann and many others. Carcanet have published his poetry, prose and translations since 1975. His books include Selected Writings (1989), Faint Harps and Silver Voices: Translations (2000), The Word Pavilion (2001), Collected Poems (2008) and Collected Later Poems (2014). John Clegg works as a bookseller in London. In 2013 he was awarded an Eric Gregory Prize. His second collection, Holy Toledo! (2016), was shortlisted for the Ledbury Forte Prize.
