Andrew Fitzsimons was born in Ireland, and is a Professor at Gakushuin University, Tokyo. As well as essays on Irish poetry, he has published on Beckett, Shakespeare, and contemporary British poetry, and translated from Italian poets, including Eugenio Montale and Andrea Zanzotto. His study of Thomas Kinsella, The Sea of Disappointment, was published in 2008, and he edited Thomas Kinsella: Prose Occasions 1951-2006 (Carcanet, 2009). His books of poetry, What the Sky Arranges: Poems made from the Tsurezuregusa of KenkÅ and A Fire in the Head were published by Isobar in 2013 and 2014.
