Piotr Sommer is a Polish poet and translator of contemporary Anglo-American poetry. He is the author of eight books of poetry, including one earlier selection in English, Things to Translate (Bloodaxe Books, 1991), and two books of essays. He lives outside Warsaw and works for Literatura na Swiecie, a magazine of international writing. He has translated many British and American poets into English, including Robert Lowell, Frank O'Hara and Charles Reznikoff, and has edited an anthology of modern British and Irish poets translated into Polish as well as a collection of interviews with leading British and Irish poets. He is a frequent visitor to Britain and Ireland, where he has given many readings as well as holding residencies.

It might come as a shock to you, but the real father of Polish poetry written in the last twenty years is Piotr Sommer. Look at his clarity, his gentle light as immediately after rain, his landscapes and touches, his fascinating human scale – and find out why.