Stephen Romer

Stephen Romer was born in Hertfordshire in 1957 and read English at Cambridge. For many years he has lived in France, where he was Maître de Conférences at Tours University from 1990-2024. He has taught in the US and has held Visiing Fellowships at Cambridge and Oxford, where he has twice served as RLF Fellow. He is currently Lecturer in French at Brasenose College, Oxford. He has published four full collections and Set Thy Love in Order, a new and selected came out in 2017. He has published several anthologies and volumes of translation, notably of Yves Bonnefoy, whose Poems and Prose (2017/2020) he co-edited for Carcanet. With Patrick McGuinness he won the 2024 Scott-Moncrieff Prize for The Day’s Ration by Gilles Ortlieb (Arc, 2023). A volume of criticism, Chaos and the Clean Line: Writings on Franco-British Modernism (Legenda, MHRA/Cambridge) came out in 2024. He has recorded his poetry for the Poetry Archive. He was made FRSL in 2011, and Chevalier de l’ordre des arts et des lettres in 2021.