Patrick Williamson is an English poet and translator. Editor and translator of The Parley Tree, Poets from French-speaking Africa and the Arab World (Arc Publications), and translator notably of Tahar Bekri, Gilles Cyr, Guido Cupani and Erri de Luca, his most recent poetry collections are: Traversi (Crossings) (English-Italian) (Samuele Editore), Beneficato (Gifted) (Samuele Editore), Tiens ta langue: Hold your tongue (Harmattan, Paris), and Nel Santuario (In the Sanctuary) (Samuele Editore), Menzione speciale della Giuria in the XV Concorso Guido Gozzano, 2014. He is a founding member of the transnational literary agency Linguafranca.