Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) was born in Northern Ireland. Death of a Naturalist, his first collection of poems, appeared in 1966 and was followed by numerous volumes of poetry, plays, criticism, and translation, establishing him as one of the leading English-language poets of his generation. In 1995, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. His translation of Virgil's Aeneid Book VI was published posthumously in 2016 to great critical acclaim. Christopher Reid is the author of many books of poetry, including A Scattering (winner of the Costa Book Award), The Curiosities, and The Late Sun. He also edited Letters of Ted Hughes. He lives in London.