Peter Forbes is a writer, journalist, and editor. He was editor of Poetry Review from 1986 to 2002. His anthologies include Scanning the Century: The Penguin Book of the Twentieth Century in Poetry (1999) and We Have Come Through: 100 poems celebrating courage in overcoming depression and trauma (Bloodaxe Books/Survivors Poetry, 2003). He also translated Primo Levi's personal anthology, The Search for Roots, published by Penguin Press in 2001.
