Barbara Folkart is adjunct professor of the School of Translation and Interpretation at the University of Ottawa, where she taught full-time from 1980 to 2000. She is a practicing poet and her work has been published in numerous poetry reviews in Canada and the United Kingdom.

The translation of poetry has always fascinated theorists, as the hope of "replicating" in another language the music, imagery, and truth of a poem is vanishingly small. These essays focus on the poetically viable translation - the derived poem that, while resonating with the original, really is a poem.