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W.N. Herbert was born in Dundee, Scotland and received his D.Phil. from Brasenose College, Oxford, where he published his thesis on the Scots poet, Hugh MacDiarmid. He has published seven volumes of poetry and four pamphlets and is widely anthologized. His last five collections, all with the northern publisher Bloodaxe, have won numerous accolades. His most recent Bloodaxe collection, Bad Shaman Blues (2006), was a PBS Recommendation, and was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot and Saltire prizes. Since 2001 he has been the lead poet for the award-winning Westpark development in Darlington, a text-led public art project. His most recent public art piece, "Pentad," is positioned outside the Robinson Library on Newcastle University campus. In recent years he has focused on literary translation, editing an anthology of translations from contemporary Bulgarian poetry called A Balkan Exchange (Arc, 2007), which included original poetry by the translators. Together with Martin Orwin, he translated the Somali poet Gaarriye for the Poetry Translation Centre, published in a pamphlet by Enitharmon in 2008. He worked with the prominent Chinese poet, Yang Lian, on Jade Ladder, a book of translations from contemporary Chinese poetry, which appeared from Bloodaxe Books in April 2012. He also wrote and presented a radio program, "Guns, Roses and Poetry" on international poetry festivals, and, with Clare Pollard, the radio play "Surface to Air." He lives in an old lighthouse in North Shields with the novelist Debbie Taylor.