About

James Appleby is a poet, editor, and translator. His debut pamphlet of poems, Spurious Language, was released in June 2025 with Blue Diode Press. It was highly commended in the International Book & Pamphlet Competition and is currently shortlisted for the 2026 Michael Marks Award for Poetry Pamphlets.

 

James is the editor and founder of Interpret, a magazine of international writing, where he has featured winners of the International Booker Prize, the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, the King's Gold Medal for Poetry, and the US National Book Award.

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James' poetry is published in The London Magazine  and on The Best American Poetry blog; his translations are published in The Kenyon Review. He is a translator-in-residence for the 60th Anniversary of Modern Poetry in Translation and has read at literature festivals across Europe.

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James is a fluent speaker of French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. He was born in 1993 and works in Edinburgh.