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John Taylor

John Taylor is an American writer, poet, critic, and translator who has long lived in France. As a translator from three languages (French, Italian, and Modern Greek), he has brought the work of several European poets into English for the first time. His most recent translations include books by Pascal Quignard, Philippe Jaccottet, José-Flore Tappy, Charline Lambert, Béatrice Douvre, Franca Mancinelli, and Elias Petropoulos. His own volumes of poetry and poetic prose include Remembrance of Water & Twenty-Five Trees, A Notebook of Clouds & A Notebook of Ridges (which is a “double book” co-authored with the Swiss poet Pierre Chappuis), and What Comes from the Night.

3 Veroniki Dalakoura translations by John Taylor

Posted on November 6, 2026 by John Taylor

Veroniki Dalakoura is considered one of the leading Greek poets of her generation. She was born in 1952 in Athens, where she still lives. Dalakoura is also active as a literary critic, reviewing books in the leading Greek newspapers and journals, and has translated a number of Spanish, English-language, and especially classic French writers and poets into Greek, including Rimbaud, Flaubert, Stendhal, Balzac, Baudelaire, and Desnos. Her most recent book of poetry is Efrosyni, published in 2024 by Koukkida Editions. A vast representative selection of her work has been published in John Taylor’s translation: Bird Shadows: Selected Poems and Poetic Prose 1967-2020 (Diálogos Books, 2024).

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