Yann Lovelock is a poet, editor and reviewer whose writing has appeared from small presses and in little magazines. He is associated in particular with IRON Press, Nick Toczek’s The Little Word Machine, and Ian Robinson’s Oasis, all of which he helped edit.

In Europe he served as vice-chair of Freundkreis Poesie Europe, and was English editor of its literary annual. As a critic and translator, his main specialisation was in the poetry of the Low Countries and he was commissioned to write a study of modern Dutch poetry in translation. In 1995 he was elected a corresponding member of the Belgian La Société de Langue et de Littérature Wallonnes. During the 1970s he was commissioned by UNESCO to co-translate several works from Eastern languages.