Jeremy Reed is widely acknowledged as the most imaginatively gifted British poet of his generation, praised by Seamus Heaney for his 'rich and careful writing' and by David Lodge for his 'remarkable lyric gift'. His Selected Poems were published by Penguin in 1987 and were followed in 1990 by Nineties (Cape) and Dicing for Pearls (Enitharmon Press). He has also published four novels, including Isidore, a fictional life of Lautreamont, and several literary studies, among them Madness - the Price of Poetry, which was described by Peter Ackroyd in The Times as 'enthusiastic, entertaining and often illuminating'. As a translator he has produced outstanding versions of the Hymns to the Night by Novalis (Enitharmon Press) and of the poetry of Montale (Bloodaxe 1991), which won the Poetry Society's Translation Award.David Austen studied at the Royal College of Art from 1982 to 1985. He has participated in numerous international exhibitions and has had one-man shows in London, Bristol, Manchester and Los Angeles. He is represented by Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London.