Having lived in Italy, Greece, the US and the former Yugoslavia, his perspectives as a poet combine English, French, Mediterranean, Jewish, Slavic, American and Oriental influences.
[5] He has lived in Italy, Greece, the UK, the US and the former Yugoslavia, and worked extensively in the Czech Republic, Latvia, Macedonia, Poland, Russia and Slovakia.
He also teaches at Peterhouse and Wolfson College, Cambridge, a Fellow of the English Association,[1] and poetry editor of the Jewish Quarterly.
Richard Berengarten visited the site and the memorial museum in 1985, when a blue butterfly landed on the forefinger of his writing hand.
[10] Richard Berengarten's perspectives as a poet combine British, French, Mediterranean, Jewish, Slavic, American and Oriental influences.
[13] His poetry has been said to create “cross-cultural dialogue “and to belong to “world literature.”[14][15] Some of the earlier poems are collected in larger volumes such as For the Living.