Benjamin Ivry is author of a new poetry collection, Paradise for the Portuguese Queen (Orchises Press) a sample of which may be consulted on www.poems.com. The book has been praised by Muriel Spark and Richard Howard and has been positively reviewed in Publishers Weekly and the Lambda Book Report. It contains poems that first appeared in, among other places, The New Yorker, The London Review of Books, The Spectator, Ambit Magazine, and The New Republic. Ivry has also translated a book of poems from the Polish in collaboration with Renata Gorczynski, "Canvas" written by A, Zagajewski (Farrar Straus & Giroux/ Faber and Faber). These poetry translations won the Pushcart Prize and were first printed in, among other places, the London Times Literary Supplement and Antaeus. He is author of biographies of Francis Poulenc (Phaidon Press), Arthur Rimbaud (Absolute Press/Stewart Tabori and Chang) and Maurice Ravel (Everyman/ Knopf, forthcoming). He also translates from the French (Albert Camus: a Life/ Knopf). Ivry is a New York-based writer on the arts, broadcaster and lecturer.