Jamie McKendrick  Jamie McKendrick (born 27 October 1955, Liverpool) is a British poet and translator. McKendrick has published seven collections of poetry as well as two Selected Poems. He is the editor of "The Faber Book of 20th-Century Italian Poems" (2004). McKendrick has translated six books of fiction by the Italian novelist Giorgio Bassani, including "The Garden of the Finzi-Continis," published as individual volumes by Penguin in the United Kingdom. McKendrick is the third translator to tackle Bassani. McKendrick was named as one of the Poetry Society's 'New Generation' poets in the 1990s, with the Society selecting his 1997 collection "Marble Fly" as a Poetry Society Book Choice. "Marble Fly" also won the 'Best Poetry Collection of the Year' award at the Forward Poetry Prize ceremony. Other awards include:  His collections have been shortlisted for the 2003 T. S. Eliot Prize and the 2003 Whitbread Poetry Award.