Steven Cranfield

Steve Cranfield is a writer-researcher, educator and translator who lives in London, UK. His poetry has been published in several collections, anthologies and online in the UK and the USA. His co-translations, with Claudio Tedesco, of contemporary Spanish poets have appeared in Poetry London, Ambit and Buenos Aires Poetry, among others publications. His co-translation of the acclaimed Spanish writer Francisco Brines (b. 1932) - Of Purest Blue - was reissued in late 2020 in response to Brines being awarded the prestigious Cervantes Prize that same year. Steve is an academic and he also writes on education and health care. He is an acknowledged authority on the life and work of the literary critic and teacher F. R. Leavis, by whom he was taught as a student. Recent books of poetry include: Keats's Anchovy (2021), Prospero's Cave (2022), Alien Poetry (2023) and White Nights: Portraits of Akhmatova (2023).