Yves Bonnefoy is a poet, critic and professor emeritus of comparative poetics at the Collège de France. In addition to poetry and literary criticism, he has published numerous works of art history and translated into French several of Shakespeare's plays. He is the author of The Arrière-pays, published by Seagull Books in 2012. Beverley Bie Brahic is a Canadian poet and translator. She has published two collections of poetry, and translations of French writers, including Apollinaire, Francis Ponge and Hélène Cixous.