The entries will be judged this year by poets Stephen Romer, Michael Schmidt and Peter McDonald.

Stephen Romer

Stephen Romer was born in Hertfordshire in 1957, and is a lecturer at the University of Tours in France. He has also been Visiting Professor in French at Colgate University, New York. His own poetry collections include Idols (1986); Plato's Ladder (1992); and Tribute (1998).  He has translated many French poets, including Philippe Jaccottet, Jean Tardieu, and Jacques Dupin. He has also translated sections from the Notebooks of Paul Valéry (2002) and co-edited and translated (with Jennie Feldman) Into the Deep Street: Seven Modern French Poets (Anvil, 2009). His latest collection of poetry is Yellow Studio (2008), shortlisted for the 2008 T. S. Eliot Prize.  Stephen Romer is also the editor of 20th-Century French Poems (2002).

Michael Schmidt

Michael Schmidt (OBE FRSL) is the founder and editorial and managing director of Carcanet Press Limited, the general editor of PN Review, and Professor of Poetry and convener of the Creative Writing programme in the Department of English, University of Glasgow.

He is currently engaged in writing Lives of the Novelists, a companion volume to Lives of the Poets (1999), and one further-- the fourth -- volume of The Story of Poetry. His most recent anthology, The Great Modern Poets, was published by Quercus on National Poetry Day 2006. His collection of poems The Resurrection of the Body was published in January 2007 in the United Kingdom and in March 2007 in the United States. In the autumn of 2009 his Collected Poems will appear.

Peter McDonald