Jilted City

About Patrick McGuinness

Patrick McGuinness was born in 1968 in Tunisia. In 1998 he won an Eric Gregory Award for poetry from the Society of Authors and his work has appeared in the Independent PN Review Poetry Wales Leviathan and other journals and magazines as well as the anthology New Poetries II edited by Michael Schmidt (Carcanet). His first collection The Canals of Mars appeared in 2004. Also for Carcanet McGuinness has translated For Anatole's Tomb by Stephane Mallarme from the French and edited the prose and poems of the Welsh modernist poet Lynette Roberts. He is a fellow of St Anne's College University of Oxford where he lectures in French. He lives in Cardiff. His academic books include Maurice Maeterlinck and the Making of Modern Theatre (Oxford UP 2000) Symbolism Decadence and the fin de siecle (University of Exeter Press 2000) and he has edited the Penguin Classics edition of Against Nature by J-K Huysmans and T.E. Hulme's Selected Writings for Carcanet. His French Anthologie de la Poesie symboliste et decadente is published by Les Belles Lettres (Paris 2001).