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Peter Hughes Author, Editor & Translator

Peter Hughes was born in Oxford in 1956. He lived in Italy for several years and continues to find inspiration in Italian literature. He currently lives in Wales. For some years he has run Oystercatcher Press, an imprint which has published over 100 pamphlets of exciting poetry. A Selected Poems was published by Shearsman in 2013. Peter's versions of the complete sonnets of Petrarch were published by Reality Street in 2015, and his versions of Cavalcanti, titled Cavalcanty, were published by Carcanet Press.