In celebrating the academic career and practice of a distinguished scholar of French literature this volume concentrates on one of Peter Broomes major preoccupations and attainments translation. Eschewing a dogmatic theoretical approach the contributors former colleagues and students tackle four rich areas of study modern anglophone poets reactions to and translations of authors with whom they have closely identified Racine the Symbolists SaintJohn Perse Valry problematics of translating specific poets of recent centuries Rimbaud Mallarm Valry Csaire some contemporary poets reception and interaction in two foreign countries Australia Spain and a more fluid interpretation of translation moving the notion across into wider realms of literary expression Mallarm Proust Assia Djebar. A focalising feature punctuating the volume are Peter Broomes own translations of hitherto unpublished poems by five major contemporary French writers JeanPaul Auxemry MarieClaire Bancquart Louise Herlin Vnus KhouryGhata and JeanCharles Vegliante. The book thus intertwines theory and practice in a nonprescriptive manner which invites further elaboration and analysis.