Peter Broome was Senior Lecturer in French at Queen’s University Belfast. After a BA and a PhD in French at Nottingham University, he was appointed to a lectureship in French at Monash University in Australia in 1962. In 1966 he took up a post in the French department at Queen’s, where he was known particularly for his inspirational lectures on Baudelaire, Mallarmé and Rimbaud. He was also a poet and collaborated with a number of French contemporaries, translating the work of André Frénaud and Louise Herlin. He contribute the introductory essay to Henri Michaux's Spaced, Displaced in the Bloodaxe Contemporary French Poets series. He continued to publish widely after his retirement in 2002, and lived for a number of years in what had been Frénaud’s home in rural Burgundy. He died in 2018.
