Website: http://www.torriano.org/hearing_eye/rmckane.html

Richard McKane is a poet and translator and former human rights interpreter. He has translated from Russian Anna Akhmatova and Osip Mandelstam and with Ruth Christie of Nazim Hikmet and Oktay Rifat from Turkish. Hearing Eye published a selection of his own poems and translations: Poet for Poet and are due to publish his Out of the Cold Blue Poems 1967-1999 in late autumn 2008.