Peter van de Kamp (1956), poet, anthologist, translator, critic and scholar, was born in The Hague, where he enjoyed a Jesuit education. He studied English in Leiden, where he taught, and assisted A.G.H. Bachrach in editing The Journals of Lodewijk Huygens. The recipient of two European Exchange scholarships, he read Anglo-Irish Literature at University College, Dublin, and was conferred Ph.D. in 1985, for his The Literary Estate of Pamela Hinkson. He went on to head the Language Acquisition section of the English Department, Leiden University. In 1989, he received the prestigious Newman Scholarship from University College, Dublin. He co-authored a biography of Flann O'Brien with Peter Costello, compiled a collection of stories by Katharine Tynan, edited with Jacques Chuto et al., The Collected Works of James Clarence Mangan, with Frank van Meurs the most comprehensive bilingual anthology of Dutch poetry in English (Turning Tides),with Peter Liebregts a collection of essays on W.B. Yeats and politics (Tumult of Images), and with A. Norman Jeffares the recent series of anthologies, Irish Literature: The Eighteenth Century and Irish Literature: The Nineteenth Century. In all, he has published 18 books. His first collection of poetry, Notes, was published in 1999; it was followed by In Train and, most recently, by Scratch & Sniff (edited by Lim Lee Ching & Jeremy Fernando). His poetry has been described by Neil Murphy as 'writ[ing] with brutal candour about the heart of human fragility.... Poems like this are in communion with their own making, their own song'. He has been a Visiting Professor at Nanyang Technological University of Singapore. Peter lives in Tralee, Co. Kerry, Ireland, with his wife Caroline and their dog Mickey, who both feature in his verse. He teaches at the Institute of Technology, Tralee. He is a veteran marathon runner, a mediocre musician, composer and painter. He has directed various Yeats plays. Among his unpublished books is a Pragmastylistic Guide to Reading and Writing (PROS), and a pedagogical grammar, with sections on Rhetoric and Logic (Trivia). He is currently writing a book on James Joyce's Dubliners (Whodunnit in Dubliners), the product of many years of teaching at the James Joyce International Summer School. He has been working for more than 25 years on a biography of Katharine Tynan, the prolific Irish writer, and the first woman whom Yeats ever proposed to. He was the founder of K.I.S.S., the Kerry International Summer School of Living Irish Authors.