ANDREW JOHNSTON’s books of poems include Birds of Europe (Victoria University Press, 2000), The Open Window: New and Selected Poems (Arc, UK, 1999), The Sounds (Victoria University Press, 1996) and How to Talk (Victoria University Press, 1993), which won the 1994 New Zealand Book Award for Poetry. A new collection, Sol, will be published in late 2006 by Victoria University Press. He is editing an anthology of New Zealand poetry translated into French, which will be published in October 2006 by Éditions Circé. Andrew Johnston lives with his wife and son in Paris, where he works as an editor at the International Herald Tribune. He also edits The Page, an online digest of the web’s best writing about poetry and ideas.