Juan Carlos Mestre, poet and visual artist, was born in Villafranca del Bierzo, in León, Spain, in 1957, under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. He studied at the University of Barcelona. Mestre’s poems use dream and memory to explore the conditions of exile and the everyday.
He is the author of numerous collections, including La casa roja (2008), which won the National Poetry Prize awarded by Spain’s Ministry of Culture, and La bicicleta del panadero (2012), which won the Premios de la Crítica.
Peter Boyle is a poet and translator living and working on Dharug land.
He has published eleven books of poetry, including, most recently, Companions, Ancestors, Inscriptions.
As a translator, his books include Anima by José Kozer, The Trees: Selected Poems of Eugenio Montejo and Three Poets: Olga…