Patrick McGuinness was born in Tunisia in 1968 to a Belgian French-speaking mother and an English father of Irish descent, he grew up in Belgium and lived for periods in Venezuela, Iran, Romania, and the UK. He currently lives in Oxford and in Wales teaching French and Comparative Literature at St Anne’s College, Oxford.
Books in order of publication (In English and French):
T. E. Hulme: Selected Writings (Carcanet Press/Routledge USA, 1998, 2003)
New Poetries II, an anthology, edited by Michael Schmidt, Carcanet, 1999, pp. 70–76
Maurice Maeterlinck and the Making of Modern Theatre Oxford University Press, 1999
Symbolism, Decadence and the ‘Fin de Siècle’: French and European Perspectives (editor) University of Exeter Press, 2000
Anthologie de la Poésie Symboliste et Décadente (editor) Les Belles Lettres (France), 2001
J-K Huysmans’ Against Nature (editor) Penguin, 2003
S.Mallarmé For Anatole’s Tomb (translator) Carcanet, 2003
Marcel Schwob, Oeuvres (editor) Les Belles Lettres (France), 2003
The Canals of Mars Carcanet, 2004
Lynette Roberts: Collected Poems (editor) Carcanet, 2005
I canali di Marte edited and translated by Giorgia Sensi, Mobydick, 2006,
19th Century Blues Smith/Doorstop, 2007
Lynette Roberts: Diaries, Letters and Recollections, (editor) Carcanet, 2009,
Jilted City Carcanet, 2010
L’età della sedia vuota, (original title Jilted City) ed. and transl. by Giorgia Sensi, Il Ponte del Sale, Rovigo, 2011
The Last Hundred Days, Seren, 2011
Other People’s Countries: A Journey into Memory, Jonathan Cape, 2014
Poetry and Radical Politics in Fin de Siecle France: From Anarchism to Action Francaise, OUP, 2015
Throw Me to the Wolves, Jonathan Cape, 2019
Real Oxford, Seren Books, 2021.
Blood Feather, Jonathan Cape, 2023 (Poems)
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