Erik Martinez Richards, a co-founder of London Open Mic Poetry Night and its photographer, seems to be far too busy putting together two manuscripts of poems, writing more, and possibly a novel too, to be bothered with such petty nonsense as sitting down and writing a short little bio for our website. I am left having to resort to any underhanded tactic I can think of, like posting this picture, to get him to take his online life seriously. All I can tell you about him for sure is that his poetry in interesting to say the least, that he has had one book, and maybe more, published in Canada, as is evidenced by this 1985 Ottawa cover, that he has translated books of poetry from Spanish to English, no mean feat, that he has worked for many years as an official translator in Ottawa, and that in his early days he was a major member of the Santiago school of poetry in Chile, a country that takes its poetry SERIOUSLY.
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