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Martyn Crucefix is a British poet, critic, blogger, and translator. He is the author of nine original collections of poetry, as well as several volumes of translations including Peter Huchel and Juergen Becker for Shearsman Books, and Rilke for Pushkin Press and Enitharmon. Crucefix has received an Eric Gregory award, a Hawthornden Fellowship, and the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for his translations (from the German) of the poems of Peter Huchel (2020). His translation of Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies (Enitharmon, 2006) was shortlisted for the Popescu Prize for Poetry Translation. His translations of essays by German poet and novelist, Lutz Seiler, In Case of Loss, is published by And Other Stories and a major Rilke Selected Poems, Change Your Life, has recently been published by Pushkin Press (2024). Until recently a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at The British Library, Crucefix is also a tutor for the Poetry School in London and he edits the Acumen Poetry Magazine Young Poets web page.