Belinda Cooke was born in Reading in 1957 and took a degree in English/Russian at Liverpool University. She has published one collection of poetry, Resting Place (Flarestack 2007), and a collection of translations, Paths of the Beggar Woman: the Selected Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva (Worple Press 2008). Boris Poplavsky’s Flags, produced in collaboration with Richard McKane, was published by Shearsman Press (2009); they later collaborated on Boris Pasternak’s Zhivago Poems and Other Later Poems.