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A
note about Peter Dale in Conversation with Cynthia Haven
A 137 page volume, comprising an extended interview in which Dale
talks about his life and literary friendships, and more particularly
about his work as a poet, translator, editor and critic. The book
also contains a career sketch, a comprehensive bibliography, several
pages of quotations from Dale's critics and reviewers, four recent
poems and a gallery of black and white photos, as well as a colour
reproduction of a portrait of Dale by the painter Mike Coleman.
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A
note on Peter Dale
Peter Dale was born in Surrey in 1938, and educated at Strode’s
School, Egham, and St Peter’s College, Oxford. For twenty-one
years he was head of the English department of Hinchley Wood School,
Esher, and concurrently an editor of the poetry quarterly Agenda.
Well-known for his Penguin verse-translation of Villon, he has
recently published a terza-rima version of Dante’s Divine
Comedy and his selected poems, Edge to Edge, both with
Anvil Press Poetry Ltd. His Richard Wilbur in Conversation
with Peter Dale was published by Between The Lines in 2000.
Revised and extended editions of his Poems of François
Villon and his Poems of Jules Laforgue appeared from
Anvil in 2001. He currently edits a poetry column for Oxford
Today.
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A
note on Cynthia Haven
Cynthia
L. Haven was born in Detroit and educated at the University of
Michigan Ann Arbor , where she studied with the late Joseph Brodsky
and earned two prestigious Avery Hopwood Awards for Literature.
After receiving her university degree, she moved to London and
worked at Vogue, Index on Censorship , and a short-lived
Third-World newsweekly on Fleet Street, the World Times .
Currently, she is a literary critic at the San Francisco Chronicle
and writes regularly for the Times Literary Supplement,
the Washington Post Bookworld, the Los Angeles Times
Book Review and the Cortland Review. Her work has
also been published in Civilization , Commonweal
, the Kenyon Review , and the Georgia Review.
Her interview with Thom Gunn appeared in the Georgia
Review, spring-summer issue, 2005 . She has been
affiliated with Stanford University for many years, and is a regular
contributor to its magazine.
Recipient of over a dozen literary and journalistic awards, she
has written several non-fiction books. Her most publications are
Joseph Brodsky: Conversations (University Press of Mississippi,
Jackson, Mississippi, 2003/Adelphi Edizioni, Milan, 2005), Peter
Dale in Conversation with Cynthia Haven (BTL, London, 2005),
Czeslaw Milosz: Conversations (University Press of Mississippi,
Jackson, Mississippi , 2006) and "Timothy Steele in Conversation
with Cynthia Haven", in Three Poets in Conversation: Dick
Davis, Rachel Hadas, Timothy Steele (BTL, London, 2006).
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