Richard Martin was born in London, studied in Cambridge and taught English and American literature from 1973 to 1998 at the University of Aachen, Germany. Apart from numerous scholarly books and articles, he has published poetry in magazines in England, Ireland, Austria and the US. Recently a volume of poetry with the title Spider’s Nets was published. Richard Martin translated a collection of Jürgen Nendza’s poetry (Die Gelegenheit der Wiese. / The Chance of the Meadow). (2009)
