ELI TOLARETXIPI was born, lives and works in San Sebastian, Spain. She has published two poetry collections in Spanish and her poetry has also been translated into French and Italian. Amor muerto naturaleza muerta (Past Love Still Life) was published in 1999 and was praised for its poetics of unease. Her second volume Los lazos del numero (The Loops of the Figure) appeared in 2003. Structurally dazzling, its poems deal with perception, dream and the nature of poetry. She is the Spanish translator of Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, Menna Elfyn and Tess Gallagher.PHILIP JENKINS translates contemporary Spanish poetry and lives in Spain. He and R. D. V. Glasgow have translated The Black Sheep and Other Fables (Acorn Book Company, 2005) by the Guatemalan writer Augusto Monterroso.ROBERT CRAWFORD has published six collections of poetry, four of which have been Poetry Book Society Recommendations; he has also won two Scottish Arts Council Book Awards. With Simon Armitage he edited The Penguin Book of Poetry from Britain and Ireland since 1945 (1998) and with Mick Imlah The New Penguin Book of Scottish Verse (2000). A founding editor of the magazine Verse, he has served as a judge for the T. S. Eliot Prize, the National Poetry Competition, and other awards. He has been Professor of Modern Scottish Literature at the University of St. Andrews since 1989.