Moniza
Alvi was born in Pakistan and grew up in Hertfordshire. She has
five collections of poetry. The first, The Country at My Shoulder
(OUP, 1993), was a PBS Recommendation, shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot and the Whitbread
poetry prizes, and selected for the New Generation Poets promotion. The most
recent is How the Stone Found Its Voice (Bloodaxe, 2005). She received a
Cholmondeley Award in 2002.
Angela Anderson is an
American dancer and journalist born and raised in the Californian Mojave
desert. She currently lives with her husband and two sons in Brunswick,
Germany, where she choreographs for musical theatre and teaches butoh
performance. Her poetry and prose have been published in Rohwedder
International Journal of Liturature and Art and Writing For Our Lives. She can
be contacted at: angeladawna@hotmail.com.
Simon Armitage was born
in 1963 and lives in West Yorkshire. He has published nine volumes of poetry
including Killing Time (Faber & Faber, 1999) and Selected Poems
(Faber & Faber, 2001) His most recent collections are The Universal Home
Doctor and Travelling Songs (Faber & Faber in 2002). He has
received numerous awards for his poetry including the Sunday Times Author of
the Year, one of the first Forward Prizes and a Lannan Award. He writes for
radio, television and film, and is the author of four stage plays, including Mister
Heracles, a version of the Euripides play The Madness of Heracles. His
recent dramatisation of The Odyssey, commissioned by the BBC, was broadcast on
Radio 4 in 2004 and is available through BBC Worldwide. He received an Ivor
Novello Award for his song-lyrics in the Channel 4 film Feltham Sings, which
also won a BAFTA. His first novel, Little Green Man, was published by
Penguin in 2001. His second novel The White Stuff was published in 2004.
Margaret
Atwood is the author of more than forty books of fiction poetry,
and critical essays. Her most recent book The
Tent, a collection of mini-fictions was published by McClelland &
Stewart. Her novel, Oryx and Crake, was short-listed for the
Man Booker Prize and the Giller Prize in Canada. Her other books include the
2000 Booker Prize winning, The Blind
Assassin, Alias Grace, which won
the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy, The Robber Bride, Cat’s Eye, The Handmaid’s
Tale and The Penelopiad. Margaret
Atwood lives in Toronto with writer Graeme Gibson.
A
C Bevan: poems have appeared in newspapers & magazines in the
United Kingdom, Europe & America – most notably in Poetry Review, Poetry
Salzburg & Caveat Lector
respectively, as well as the anthology: Bleeding
Hearts – Love Poems for the Nervous & Highly Strung (Aurum Press [UK] /
St Martins Press [US]). His first pamphlet collection, Of
Sea Graves and Sand Shrines, was published by Arc Publications in
January 2001 & led to further interest from Channel 4 & BBC Radio. His first full length collection will be
published by Salmon in 2007.
Jim Boring
lives on the edge of the Everglades in Margate, Florida, USA. His poetry has appeared in many venues most
notably the literary magazine, Lit Pot. His most recent manuscript, Condo and Other
Poems, reflects on the process of aging in a community of the aged.
Alan Brownjohn
was born in London on 28 July 1931 and was educated at Merton College,
Oxford. He worked as a schoolteacher between 1957 and 1965 and lectured at
Battersea College of Education and South Bank Polytechnic until he left to
become a full-time freelance writer in 1979. His first collection of poetry, The
Railings, was published in 1961. Other poetry books include Collected
Poems 1952-1983 (1983) and The Observation Car (1990). He is also
the author of three novels, as well as two books for children and a critical
study of the poet Philip Larkin.
Richard Alan Bunch, born in
Honolulu, grew up in the Napa Valley. His poetry works include Summer Hawk and Wading the Russian River. Night
Blooms is a selection of journal entries on philosophy, literature, and
religion. His stories have appeared in several venues. He is also author of the
play, The Russian River Returns. His
poetry has appeared in Orbis, Avocet,
Poetry New Zealand, Oregon Review, Poetry
Nottingham and the Hawai’i Review.
His latest poetry collection is Running
for Daybreak (Mellen Poetry Press).
Michael R. Burch is the
editor of The HyperTexts, where he
has published the work of three Pulitzer Prize nominees and recent winners of
the T. S. Eliot, Richard Wilbur and Howard Nemerov awards. His work has
appeared over 400 times in literary journals around the globe, including The
Chariton Review, Poetry Magazine, Verse, Poet Lore, Unlikely Stories, Light
Quarterly, Writer’s Digest – The Year’s Best Writing 2003, The Best of the
Eclectic Muse 1989-2003, The Lyric, ByLine, Icon and Nebo.
Elizabeth Burns has
published two collections of poetry, Ophelia and other poems (Polygon,
1991) and The Gift of Light (diehard,
2000), and several pamphlets with Galdragon Press. Her work has also been
published in anthologies such as Dream State: The New Scottish Poets
(Polygon, 1994 & 2002), Atoms of Delight: An Anthology of Scottish
Haiku and Short Poems (Pocketbooks, 2001), Modern Scottish
Women Poets (Canongate,
2003) and Handsel: Poems for Births and Baby Namings (Scottish Poetry Library, 2005).
Lorna Callery is a
Glasgow based artist, writer and tutor interested in broadening the boundaries
between art forms, specifically visual art and creative writing. Much of
Lorna’s art is text based, experimenting with concrete poetry within the
gallery context in order to challenge the viewer’s perceptions of what
constitutes a particular art form. Is it visual art/is it poetry? Why do we
feel the need to constantly categorise what we have created? For more
information contact: polkadotpunks@hotmail.com
Catherine
Chandler was born in New York
and raised in Pennsylvania. In 1972, she and her husband, Hugo Oliveira,
settled in Montreal, Canada, where she lectures in Spanish at McGill
University’s Department of Translation Studies. Her poems and translations have been published or will soon appear
in such journals as SPSM&H (Amelia), The Lyric, Iambs and Trochees,
Raintown Review, Harp-Strings Poetry Journal, Blue Unicorn, Texas Poetry
Journal, and Modern Haiku. Samples of her work can be read at The
HyperTexts at www.thehypertexts.com
under “Contemporary Poets/Artists”.
David
Constantine has published half a dozen volumes of poetry, most
recently a Collected Poems (Bloodaxe Books 2004) and a volume of short stories,
Under the Dam (Comma Press 2005). He is a translator of Hölderlin, Goethe and
Brecht. With his wife Helen he edits the magazine Modern Poetry in Translation.
Maurice
Cox is an
author/songsmith whose anthems have been sung throughout the UK, in venues
ranging from small folk clubs and civic centres to the Royal Albert Hall (Holy
Day! 2001, in collaboration with Andrew Campling, founder/musical director
of the Dockland Singers). After
surviving major surgery for cancer, he now lives in retirement in Fort William
in the Scottish Highlands.
Cyril
Dabydeen: work has
been anthologized in over 20 volumes in seven countries, including in the Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse and the Oxford Book of Caribbean Poetry. His own recent books include Imaginary Origins: Selected Poems
(Peepal Tree Press, UK), Play a Song
Somebody: New and Selected Stories (Mosaic Press, Canada), and the novel Drums of My Flesh (TSAR, Canada). He has juried for Canada’s
Governor General’s Award for Poetry, and America’s Neustadt International Prize
for Literature, and has read across North America, UK and Europe, the Caribbean and Asia. He teaches English at the
University of Ottawa, Canada. He was official
Poet Laureate of Ottawa (1984-87).
Doug Draime, poet,
short story writer and playwright has been writing and publishing since the
late 1960's. His most recent books include: "Slaves Of The Harvest"
(Indian Heritage Publishing, 2002), "Unoccupied Zone" (Pitchfork Press,
2004), "Spleen" an online book, (Poetic Inhalation, 2005), and
forthcoming from Scintillating Publications, "Spiders And Madmen".
Awarded PEN grants in 1987 and 1991. His work has appeared in hundreds of print
magazines and online journals. He currently lives in Oregon with his wife,
writer Carol Shepherd-Draime.
Carol Ann Duffy, born in
Glasgow in 1955, grew up in Stafford and attended university in Liverpool. She lived for several years in London before
moving back north again and now lives in Manchester with her young
daughter. Her poetry has been
critically acclaimed and she has received numerous awards. Her collections include Standing Female
Nude and The Other Country, which both earned her a Scottish Arts
Council Award; Selling Manhattan, which won a Somerset Maugham Award
(1988), a Dylan Thomas Award (1989) and a Cholmondelay Award (1992); Mean
Time, which won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award, the Forward Prize and
the Whitbread Award for Poetry (1993); and The World's Wife, which
received the E.M. Forster Award in the USA.
Since becoming a mother herself, she has also begun to write for
children and her collections of poetry for younger readers are entitled Meeting
Midnight (shortlisted for the Whitbread Children's book of the year in
1999) and The Oldest Girl In The World (which received the Signal Prize
in 2000). She has also written versions
of Grimm's dairy tales and is the editor of several anthologies for both adults
and children.
Ian Duhig worked
with homeless people for 15 years before becoming a full-time writer and
teacher of writing. He has written four books of poetry, the most recent of
which - The Lammas Hireling (Picador 2003) - was a PBS Choice and
shortlisted for the Forward and T.S. Eliot Best Collection Prizes. His next, The
Speed of Dark, is due from Picador in 2007.
Ruth
Fainlight was born in New York City, but has lived in England since
the age of 15. She has published thirteen collections of poems in England and
the USA, as well as two volumes of short stories. Books of her poems have
appeared in Portuguese, French, Spanish and Italian translation. She received
the Hawthornden and Cholmondeley Awards in 1994, and her collection, Sugar-Paper
Blue (Bloodaxe, 1997) was shortlisted for the 1998 Whitbread Award. Her latest collection is Moon
Wheels (Bloodaxe, 2006).
Vicki
Feaver was born in Nottingham in 1943. She studied music at Durham
University and later, after bringing up four children, English at University
College London. She has published three volumes of poetry, Close Relatives (Secker 1981), The
Handless Maiden (Cape 1994) and The
Book of Blood (Cape 2006). Previously a professor at the University of
Chichester, she moved to Scotland in 2000 and lives with her husband and dog on
the edge of the Pentlands.
Elaine Feinstein
is a prize-winning poet, novelist and biographer. In 1990, she received
a Cholmondeley Award for Poetry, and was given an Honorary D.Litt from the
University of Leicester . She is a Fellow of he Royal Society of Literature .
Her versions of the poems of Marina Tsvetaeva were first published in 1971, and
remain in print from OUP/Carcanet in the UK and Penguin in USA. Her Collected
Poems and Translations (2002) was a Poetry Book Society Special
Commendation. Her web site is at
www.ElaineFeinstein.com
Lawrence
Ferlinghetti was born in Yonkers in 1919. In 1953 he co-founded,
with Peter D. Martin, City Lights, one of the first all-paperbound bookstores
in the country, and by 1955 had launched the City Lights publishing house,
whose publication of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl in 1956 led to the
publisher’s arrest on obscenity charges. In a widely publicized first amendment
case, the publishers were vindicated, drawing international attention to San Francisco
Renaissance and Beat movement writers. Ferlinghetti is the author of A Coney
Island of the Mind, one of the most popular poetry books in the U.S., with
close to 1,000,000 copies in print. His most recent book is A Far Rockaway
of the Heart. In August 1998, he was named San Francisco’s first Poet
Laureate.
Annie Finch is an
American poet, translator, librettist, critic and editor. She has published
four books of poetry, including Calendars (Tupelo, 2003), shortlisted
for the Foreword Poetry Book of the Year Award; The Encyclopaedia of
Scotland (Salt Publishing, 2004), and a translation of the Complete
Poems of Louise Labé (University of Chicago Press, 2006). Her opera based
on the life of Marina Tsvetaeva premiered from American Opera Projects in 2003.
Her most recent of several anthologies and books on poetics is The Body of
Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self (Michigan, 2005). She
directs the Stonecoast Brief-Residency MFA at the University of Southern Maine,
and her website is at www.anniefinch.com
Carolyn
Finlay grew up in Australia and came to England in 1969. Her poems
have appeared in magazines such as Terrible
Work, Acid Angel, Fire, Outposts, etc, and in the anthologies Earth Ascending (Stride 1995) and Earth Songs (Green Books 2002). In her two books of poetry, Giveaway (Stride 1996) and Foreigner (Waterdog Press 2001), she explores
and celebrates our human experience of simultaneous multi-levelled
reality. Her short story, 'Zoom', appears in Necrologue, the Diva Book of the Dead and the Undead (Diva Books
2003).
Charles Adés Fishman
is director of the Distinguished Speakers Program at Farmingdale State
University and poetry editor of New Works Review. His books include Mortal Companions, Blood
to Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust, and The Death Mazurka,
which was nominated for the 1990 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. His most recent collections are Country
of Memory (Uccelli Press), and 5,000 Bells (Cross-Cultural
Communications), both 2004. His new
book of poems, Chopin’s Piano, has
just been published by Time Being Books, which will publish a revised second
edition of Blood to Remember in 2007.
Rose
Flint, an award winning poet, has three collections Blue Horse of Morning (Seren) Firesigns (Poetry Salzburg) and Nekyia (Stride). She is an art therapist
and uses the healing qualities pf poetry in her work as Lead Writer for the
Kingfisher Project, based in the hospital and community of Salisbury. She
teaches creative writing and is a tutor for Arvon and Ty Newydd. Her themes
celebrates the sacredness of life, with a sense of spirit and relationship.
Donald Gardner: London-born,
lived in New York in the 1960s where he read his poetry with Ginsberg, Corso
and others. He has lived in Holland since 1979. He is a translator of poetry,
for instance, Octavio Paz’s ‘Sun Stone’. His collection How to get the Most
out of Your Jet Lag appeared in 2001(Ye Olde Font Shoppe, New Haven). He
has a new collection almost out, The Glittering Sea (Hearing Eye 2006)
and his book of translations of Dutch poet Remco Campert will also appear in
2006 (Arc Publications). His website is: www.donaldgardner.net
Roger Garfitt is a Royal
Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Wales, Swansea, and runs Poetry Masterclasses
for the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education at Madingley
Hall. He performs Poetry & Jazz
with Nikki Iles and the John Williams Septet and Poetry & Dulcimer Music
with Sue Harris on the hammered dulcimer.
His Selected Poems are published by Carcanet and he is
completing a memoir, The Horseman’s Word,
for Secker & Warburg.
Magi Gibson
has published four collections of poetry. She won the Scotland on Sunday/Women
2000 Writing Prize. Poems in Scottish Love Poems and Modern Scottish Women
Poets (both Canongate), and The Twentieth Century Book of Scottish Poetry
(Edinburgh University Press). Her third poetry collection, Wild Women of a
Certain Age, is now in its third print run. She lives in Scotland with partner,
comedy writer and stand-up comedian, Ian Macpherson.
Geoffrey Godbert has
fourteen collections of poetry, two of essays, a memoir and a treatise. He is
co-editor of two Faber poetry anthologies and editor of an anthology of prose
poems. His poems are included in a modern ballet. Of his work, Harold Pinter
comments: "Geoffrey will certainly end up with the poets in heaven."
Jack Granath lives in
Kansas City, Missouri and works in a library in Kansas City, Kansas. His
poetry has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review and The Formalist among other
publications. More information is available at www.jackgranath.com.
Alasdair Gray: born in
1934 and dwelling in Glasgow became jack of several trades being unable to earn
a living by one, therefore cannot be taken seriously. He has written plays,
novels, stories, verses, literary histories and political pamphlets; has
designed and illustrated books, mainly his own; has painted portraits,
landscapes, stage scenery and mural decorations. A Life in Pictures, a book
about his art, and John Tunnock, another novel will probably be published in
2007. His website is www.alasdairgray.co.uk
Rasma Haidri grew up
in the U.S. and currently lives on the arctic seacoast of Norway. Her writing
has appeared in literary journals such as Nimrod,
Prairie Schooner and Fine Madness; and been widely
anthologized, most recently in Only the Sea Keeps (Bayeux Arts), and Waking
up American (Seal Press).
Jan Oscar Hansen:
Norwegian poet, published in magazines, collections,
in anthologies and on the Internet.
Kerry Hardie: Born
1951, lives in Co. Kilkenny, Ireland. Publications: Poetry –A Furious Place (Gallery
Press, 1996); Cry For The Hot Belly (Gallery Press, 2000); The Sky Didn’t Fall (Gallery Press,
2003). The Silence Came Close forthcoming, 2006. Novels: Hannie Bennet’s Winter
Marriage (Harper Collins 2000); The
Bird Woman (Harper Collins, July 2006). Many prizes and commendations. Has
been awarded residencies in Portugal, Switzerland, Paris, Scotland, Spain.
Reviews for the Boston Globe. Her work has been widely anthologised.
Oz Hardwick is a
writer, photographer and would-be musician - frequently in combination. He is
passionate about poetry, medieval art & literature, and 70s bands most
people have forgotten. In order to pay the rent he lectures in English
Literature. His most recent collection is The
Kind Ghosts (bluechrome, 2004) and he edited the anthology, Truths and Disguises (bluechrome, 2005).
Tony Harrison was born
in Leeds in 1937. His many collections of poems include: The Loiners (awarded the Geoffrey Faber memorial Prize in
1972); Palladas: Poems (1975);
from The School Of Eloquence (1981); Continuous (1981); Selected Poems (Penguin, 1984 second ed. 1987, third
ed.1995); v. (Bloodaxe Books, 1985 new enlarged ed. 1989); The Gaze Of The
Gorgon (Bloodaxe, 1992, awarded Whitbread Prize for Poetry); The Shadow
Of Hiroshima and other film poems (Faber, 1995, awarded the William
Heinemann Prize 1996) and Laureate’s Block And Other Poems ( Penguin,
2000). His most recent collection of
poems, Under The Clock was published in May 2005 (Penguin Books).
John
Heath-Stubbs was born in 1918. He was educated at The Queen's
College, Oxford, where his contemporaries were C.S.Lewis and Tolkein. He
published his first poems in the wartime volume Eight Oxford Poets and
has gone on to write poetry, plays and literary essays that ignore fashion. One
of the most celebrated poets of his generation, he is noted also for his
translations of Middle Eastern poets, his role as teacher to new generations of
writers and as a voice keeping the long form poem an active and vibrant
tradition. He received the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.
Michael
Henry lives in Cheltenham. He has had three collections published
with Enitharmon, the last of which, “Footnote to History” was published in
2001. He is currently completing a new collection. His poetry also appeared in
many anthologies and poetry magazines.
David
Hill is a writer, performer and translator of verse, he has
contributed to film and theatre productions, national newspapers, poster
campaigns, and over 20 anthologies. His live engagements have included literary
readings, slams, business and private functions, cabarets and comedy shows in
the UK, the US, Austria, Denmark, Holland, Hungary and the Czech Republic. He
has also written lyrics for recording artists.
Michael Horovitz is
editor-publisher of New Departures, and torchbearer-presenter of Poetry
Olympics festivals and Jazz Poetry SuperJams. He has recently formed the
William Blake Klezmatrix band, to perform Blake’s lyrics and much else in
musical settings that range from blues to klezmer and folk-rock to calypso. His
books in print include a 670-line rural rhapsody Midsummer Morning Jog Log, and Wordsounds
& Sightlines: New & Selected Poems, as well as the multi-facetted POW!, POP!, POM and POT! Anthologies. Contact: New Departures, PO Box 9819, London W11 2GQ, England. Email: info@poetryolympics.com Website: www.poetryolmypics.com
Heather
Taylor Johnson moved from America to Australia in 1999 and found a
home in Adelaide, South Australia.
Along with gaining her permanent residency, a true blue Aussie husband
and two children who call her ‘mum’, she is currently the poetry editor for the
literary magazine Wet Ink and is
working on the finishing touches to her PhD in Creative Writing at the
University of Adelaide. The novel
manuscript that transpired as a result of her degree was longlisted for the Australian/Vogel
Award in 2005.
Pat Jourdan: newest
book is Average Sunday Afternoon, (Poetry Monthly Press, ISBN
1-905126-29-8). Part of the Galway writing scene for many years. Published Turpentine
in 2004 (Motet, ISBN 0-9542399-1-1).
She is mentioned as “a little-known but gifted poet” by Ian McEwan in
the novel “Saturday” (2005).
Arthur Joyce is
perhaps best known for his newspaper columns and books on the history of the
West Kootenay region of British Columbia, Canada. He has been an organizer of
poetry tours and cafés since the '80s, and a frequent performer on the Kootenay
literary scene. His poetry and essays on poetics have been published in various
Canadian literary journals, including Canadian
Author, The Fiddlehead, The New Quarterly, Whetstone, The New Orphic
Review, and Horsefly.
Julie
Kane, a native of Boston and longtime resident of Louisiana,
teaches at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. Her second full-length poetry collection, Rhythm & Booze (University of
Illinois Press, 2003) was selected by Maxine Kumin as a winner in the National
Poetry Series and was a finalist for the 2005 Poets’ Prize. Her poems have appeared in such journals as The Southern Review, The Antioch Review,
Prairie Schooner, London Magazine, Verse Daily, Feminist Studies, and The Formalist, as well as in various
anthologies.
Mimi Khalvati
was born in Iran. Her Carcanet collections include 'In White Ink' (1991),
'Mirrorwork' (1995), for which she received an Arts Council of England Writers'
Award, 'Entries on Light' (1997), 'Selected Poems' (2000) and 'The Chine'
(2002). She is the founder of the Poetry School where she teaches
and currently holds a Royal Literary Fund Fellowship at City University.
David Knopfler: founder of rock group Dire Straits, he subsequently faithfully pursued his own musical
vision, writing and producing his own compositions on nine solo CDs to date. A
lifelong member of organizations like Amnesty International, David has always
made uncompromising life choices: "I don't regard what I do as remotely
glamorous. I write, record and perform my music because I completely
love doing it and despite any so called
celebrity status that sometimes comes
with the job." As well as having
produced a clutch of underscores for film and TV projects, David’s first book of poetry entitled Blood Stones and Rhythmic Beasts was
released in 2005 by Blackwing Books.
Silvia
Kofler was born in Graz, Austria,
has lived in London and Paris and moved to Kansas City in 1979. She is editor/publisher of Thorny Locust.
Her work has been published in New Letters, Black Moon, Potpourri, The Same
(published a version of “Dangling”), The Kansas City Star and numerous other publications. Her book, From the
Suburbs with the Wedding Dress in its Coffin/Vom Vorort mit dem Hochzeitskleid
im Sarg, was published by The Edwin Mellen Press. She is a
member of the American Literary Translators Association, and lectures at KU and
Rockhurst University.
Tom Leonard: is best known
for poetry written in the urban speech of the Glasgow area, a mode which was
revolutionary and innovative when his first collection Six Glasgow Poems
was published in 1969. His work has exposed the pernicious condescension in the
literary establishment towards the vernacular of working class people, in both
the spoken and the written word. He is motivated by a fiercely honest,
socialist conviction. In his editorial introduction to Radical Renfrew:
Poetry from the French Revolution to the First World War (1990), he
lambasts language snobbery and the literary values that oppress those who 'had
lost the right to equality of dialogue with those in possession of Queen's
English or "good" Scots'. Places of the Mind, his biographical
study of James Thomson, author of The City of Dreadful Night, was
published in 1993. Other work includes Intimate Voices: Selected Work
1965-1983 (1984), Satires and Profanities (1984), On the Mass
Bombing of Iraq and Kuwait (1991) and Reports from the Present: Selected
Work 1982-94 (1995).
Rupert Loydell is
Lecturer in Creative Writing at University College Falmouth, Managing Editor of
Stride Publications, Editor of Stride
magazine, and a regular contributor to Tangents
magazine. Recent publications include A
Conference of Voices, The Museum of
Light and The Smallest Death, as
well as several collaborative books.
Jeanne Macdonald was
awarded her MA, Writing Poetry, at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne,
2003. Her first collection, white
lies are harmless, Diamond Twig, published 2004. She launched Blinking
Eye Publishing in 2004, promoting the work of writers over 50, and
acknowledges North East Arts Council, England, for financial support. Blinking Eye publishes 2 books each year
from the results of an annual poetry competition: overall winner’s collection,
and an anthology of poems by commended poets.
Scott Malby is a
frequent contributor to journals worldwide. His work has been translated into
German, French and Italian. He resides in Coos Bay, Oregon, U.S.A.
Mike Matthews lives in
Austin, Texas, with his wife, Venus, and his three children: two boys, Jade and
Drae, and his four month old daughter, Sophia.
He teaches college English classes in Killeen, Texas. He received his MFA in creative writing from
Texas State University in San Marcos in 1998, and has since published several
poems in journals around the United States and in Scotland. Mike Matthews can be contacted by email: MikDavid@hotmail.com
Anne McCrady
is a poet, storyteller and inspirational speaker whose writing appears in
journals, anthologies and performances including the Texas Storytelling Festival
and the National Storytelling Conference. Her award-winning collection of
poems, Along Greathouse Road, is available in print (Eakin Press,
2004) and on CD (InSpiritry Productions, 2005) along with her narrative
gift book, Kevin and the Seven Prayers (InSpiritry
Press, 2002). Anne is a Texas Commission on the Arts Touring Artist, a
councilor for the Poetry Society of Texas and an assistant editor for Gin
Bender Poetry Review. She welcomes visitors to her website, www.InSpiritry.com
Andrew McNeil is a
teacher/writer living in Fife. He and his partner have two great kids. He was
born in Ohio, USA and soon imbibed Scots and the salty air in the East Neuk of
Fife. He was educated at Edinburgh University and Jordanhill College. In
work-holed severely by postgraduate studies he dreams and has visions of a
Scotland coming to fully esteem itself through any language and dream!
Robert
Mezey I was born in Philadephia in 1935 and educated
at Kenyon College, the U. of Iowa, and Stanford U. My first book, The
Lovemaker, won the Lamont and was published in 1961. I have published
a number of other volumes of verse, inlcuding White Blossoms, The
Door Standing Open and Evening Wind, the most recent being my Collected
Poems (U. of Arkansas Press, 2000) which won the Poets Prize. I have
co-edited (with Donald Justice) the collected poems of Henri Coulette, and I
have edited the selected poems of Thomas Hardy, E. A. Robinson and Dick Barnes,
and three anthologies, Naked Poetry, Poems From The Hebrew and Poems
Of The American West. With Dick Barnes I translated the collected poems of
Jorge Luis Borges. I have also been awarded fellowships from the National
Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation and the Ingram Merrill
Foundation, and a prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Edwin Morgan was born
27 April 1920 in Glasgow. He began his
studies at Glasgow University in 1937. He interrupted his studies in 1940 to
join the Royal Army Medical Corps, then returned to university in 1946. He
graduated the following year with a First Class Honours Degree, and became
lecturer at Glasgow University, turning down a scholarship to Oxford; he took
early retirement in 1980. He published numerous volumes of poetry, as well as
collections of essays, most of which are available at Carcanet Press and
Mariscat Press. His volume of Collected
Poems (Carcanet Press, 1990) is the largest, a very wide ranging
collection. He was announced Glasgow's first Poet Laureate in autumn 1999, and
was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2000. His website is at: www.edwinmorgan.com
Daniele
Pantano is a
poet, translator, and editor of Haerter, M.A.G., and Niederngasse.
He was born in Langenthal, Switzerland, of Sicilian and German parentage. An
exile, he currently lives in Brandon, Florida, with his wife and their two
children.
Clare
E. Potter was born in South Wales. After three years in Mississippi studying
an MA in Afro-Caribbean literature, she spent ten years teaching and writing in
New Orleans. She won the John Tripp Award for Spoken Poetry in 2004 and her
poetry collection, Spilling Histories will be published this year by Cinnamon
Press. She has just started her Phd in creative writing at Cardiff University.
Clare recently won a Future Focus on the Arts Award and is using the bursary to
fund a trip to New Orleans to write a book of prose-poems about the impact of
Katrina. Clare can be contacted by email: clare_potter_5@hotmail.com
David Radavich is the author of Slain Species (Court Poetry Press, London), By
the Way: Poems over the Years (Buttonwood, 1998), and Greatest Hits
(Pudding House, 2000). His plays have been performed across the U.S.,
including five Off-Off-Broadway productions, and in Europe. He also
enjoys writing essays on poetry and drama.
Jay Ramsay is the
author of many books including his New & Selected Poems Kingdom of the Edge (Element, 1999), Alchemy—the art of transformation (Thorsons,
1997: also available in Italian, Portuguese, Hebrew, German, and Dutch), Tao Te Ching with Martin Palmer
(Element/Vega reprint 2002), his radical new book Crucible of Love—the alchemy of passionate relationships (O Books,
2005), and The Heart’s Ragged Evangelist
(PSAvalon, 2005).
Rochelle Ratner: books
include two novels: Bobby's Girl (Coffee House Press, 1986) and The
Lion's Share (Coffee House Press, 1991) and sixteen poetry books, including
House and Home (Marsh Hawk Press, 2003) and Beggars at the Wall
(Ikon, October 2005). An anthology she edited, Bearing Life: Women's Writings on Childlessness, was published in
January 2000 by The Feminist Press. She lives in New York City where she
teaches Creative Writing in alternative environments and reviews regularly for
Library Journal. More information and links to her writing on the Internet can
be found on her homepage: www.rochelleratner.com.
Ron
Riddell, writer and
peace-activist, is one of New Zealand’s most widely published poets. Riddell has worked and performed in a
number of countries, including Scotland, England, Chile, Colombia, El Salvador,
Australia and the U.S.A., where his latest book, the award-winning collection, Leaves of Light was published in a
bi-lingual edition (English/Spanish), in 2005. He has also been involved in a
number of peace and cultural initiatives in Colombia, Chile, U.S.A., El
Salvador and New Zealand. A painter, musician and the author of a number of
plays and novels, he has published 15 collections of verse. At present, he
lives in the New Zealand capital city, Wellington, where he is Director of The
Wellington International Poetry Festival.
Dee Rimbaud is an
artist, poet and novelist. He is author
of two full-length poetry collections, The Bad Seed and Dropping
Ecstasy With The Angels; and one novel, Stealing Heaven From The Lips Of
God. As 2006 begins, he is
frantically trying to redecorate his home to put it on the market and
simultaneously editing and preparing the manuscript of The Book Of Hopes And
Dreams. By the time it is published
he anticipates he will be on the road somewhere in Europe with his partner, Su
and daughter, Rosie Sunshine. His
adventures will be recorded in his travel-blog: http://aaron-aardvark.blogspot.com/ His website is at: www.thunderburst.co.uk
Lori Romero is an
editor and co-founder of Cezanne's
Carrot . Her first chapbook, Wall to Wall, was published by
Finishing Line Press. Her short story, "Strange Saints," was a
semifinalist in the Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award, and her short screenplay
won the Manhattan Short Film Festival's Scripts and Screenplay Competition. Her
poetry and fiction have been published in over sixty journals and anthologies.
She was nominated for a 2005 Pushcart Prize. For more information, see her
website: www.tarecords.com/loriromero.html
or email her; lori@tarecords.com
Lawrence
Sail has published nine collections of poems, most
recently Eye-Baby (Bloodaxe Books,
2006). In 2005 Enitharmon brought out
a collection of his essays, Cross-currents. He has edited a number of anthologies,
including First and Always (Faber,
1988) and (co-edited with Kevin Crossley-Holland) The New Exeter Book of Riddles (Enitharmon, 1999) and Light Unlocked: Christmas Card Poems (Enitharmon 2005). He has been chairman of The Arvon Foundation and Director of the
Cheltenham Festival of Literature, and has frequently worked abroad for the
British Council, ioncluding visits to Bosnia, Colombia, Egypt, India and
Ukraine. In 2004 he received a
Cholmondeley Award.
Lorraine
Sautner, a resident of Fairfield County, Connecticut, is the Founder/Director
of “Poets vs Poverty,” a humanitarian arts organization that fights poverty
“one word at a time” through poetry-related venues, including AEGIS
magazine. Ms. Sautner enjoys reading
and writing poetry with transcendental, spiritual, and romantic themes. She holds a master’s degree in Library and
Information Science; a bachelor’s degree in English/Writing; and hopes to begin
divinity school in late 2006. She also
writes under the pen name Sterling Peony.
Maggie Sawkins lives in
Southsea, Hampshire where she organises Tongues & Grooves poetry and music
nights. She has been widely published,
and a pamphlet collection, Charcot’s Pet, is available from Flarestack
Publishing. She is working on her first full collection, whose title, Dear Mr
Popa, is in response to Vasko Popa’s The Little Box. In 2004, she read at The Troubadour in
London as one of their new summer voices. Maggie teaches at South Downs College
near Portsmouth where she is also a mental health supports needs co-ordinator.
Myra Schneider: recent poetry books are Insisting
on Yellow, new and selected poems, (Enitharmon, 2000), Writing My Way Through Cancer, a fleshed-out
journal with poems (Jessica Kingsley 2003) and Multiplying The Moon (Enitharmon, 2004). She has co-edited three
anthologies of women’s poetry and a fourth, partly Arts Council
funded, Images of Women, will be published in November
2006. She wrote the popular writing handbook: Writing for Self-Discovery (Element 1998) with John Killick. She is
one of the Poetry School’s core tutors.
Andrew Shelley: Poet/critic.
Born 1962, West Yorkshire, England. Educated at Oxford and Cambridge, First
Class Degree, Research Fellowship, Ph.D. on Samuel Beckett's later prose.
Part-time teaching. Articles, poems and reviews in many magazines. Regular
contributor to the English magazine Tears in the Fence. Previous
publications include Peaceworks (The Many Press, 1996) and Requiem
Tree (Spectacular Diseases, 2002). Thornsongs is a pamphlet of seven
prose poems issued in the States by Unarmed in 2005 and distributed free.
Penelope
Shuttle was born in Staines, Middlesex, in 1947. Since
1980 she has published six collections of poems, a Selected Poems (Poetry Book
Society Recommendation, 1997, available from Carcanet), novels, and is co-author
of two widely-read prose works, The Wise Wound and Alchemy for Women, dealing
with the psychology and creative aspect of menstruation and its part in
redefining the role and reality of women. Her work has been widely
anthologised. Since 1970 she has lived in Falmouth, Cornwall.
K.V. Skene: poems
have appeared in numerous Canadian, U.K., U.S., Irish and Australian
publications Two chapbooks, Only a Dragon (2002) and A Calendar of Rain (2004),
won the Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook Award (Canada). Another chapbook, Edith
(a series of poems on Nurse Edith Cavell) was published by Flarestack Publishing in 2004. A book Love
in the (Irrational) Imperfect is forthcoming from Hidden Brook Press (Canada). A long-term expat Canadian, K.V. Skene is
presently living in Oxford.
Thomas R. Smith is a poet,
essayist, editor, and teacher living in River Falls, Wisconsin. His books
of poetry include Keeping the Star (New Rivers Press, 1988), Horse of Earth
(Holy Cow! Press, 1994), The Dark Indigo Current (Holy Cow! Press, 2000), and
Winter Hours (Red Dragonfly Press, 2005), as well as many chapbooks, most
recently Peace Vigil: Poems for an Election Year (and After) (2004).
His work was selected for The Best American Poetry 1999, the prestigious
Scribner anthology. His work has appeared in the UK in Urthona and
in Ireland in Poetry Ireland.
Jon
Stallworthy was educated at Rugby School, in the Royal West
African Frontier Force, and at Magdalen College, Oxford. His books include eight collections of
poems, two critical studies of Yeats’ poetry, The Penguin Book of Love Poetry, The Fragments and War Poems, and two biographies: Wilfred Owen (which won the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize, the
W.H.Smith Literary Award, the E.M.Forster Award) and Louis MacNeice (which won the Southern Arts Literary Prize). More recently, he has published Rounding the Horn: Collected Poems and
Singing School, ‘the autobiography we would like all poets to write’ (Oxford Today). Having been a Professor of English Literature at Cornell and
Oxford, he is now a Senior Research Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, and a
Fellow of the British Academy.
Anne Stevenson is the
author of over a dozen volumes of poetry, including this year's Granny
Scarecrow, The
Collected Poems, 1955-1995, Four and a
Half Dancing Men, and Correspondences. She
is the author of several volumes of literary criticism as well, and also of the
controversial Bitter Fame:
A Life of Sylvia Plath.
Stevenson was writer-in-residence at the University of Dundee, 1973-75, a
fellow at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, 1975-77, and writer-in-residence at
Bulmershe College, Reading, Berkshire, 1977-78, and the University of
Edinburgh, 1987-89. She was also a Northern Arts Literary Fellow at Newcastle
and Durham, 1981-82 and 1984-85.
Ray Succre has been
writing with a profession in mind for about thirteen years. He began writing poetry as his primary work
in 1997 and has also written several stageplays and collections of short stories. He began publishing August of 2004, and has
been published in Aesthetica, Poetry
Salzburg Review, Poetry Nottingham, and around fifty others both in the
U.S. and abroad. He currently lives as
a resident of southern coastal Oregon, U.S., with his loving wife Maisy, and
his baby boy, Painter. He is between
dishwashing jobs. More on Ray Succre
can be found at his webpage: http://raysuccre.blogspot.com
Tricia Torrington
lives in Cheltenham and has been published in a number of anthologies
and magazines. She was one of two writers featured in “Rubin’s Figure” in 1986.
She is also a member of the Border Poets and recently edited and appeared in
their latest anthology, “A Brush with Words”, a joint venture with the Royal
Academy Schools Alumni. She is married to the poet, Michael Henry.
Fiona Ritchie Walker is
originally from Montrose, Angus in Scotland and now lives in Blaydon, near
Newcastle. She has two poetry collections: Lip Reading (Diamond Twig) and Garibaldi's Legs (Iron Press). Her poetry also features in magazines and anthologies,
including Virago/Writing Women's Wild Cards, the
British Council/Picador New Writing 11 and several anthologies
from New Writing Scotland. Fiona’s short stories have been published on
literary websites and in Newcastle Stories 1, Bracket and September
Stories (all Comma Press). In 2006, her story sequence will appear
in Ellipsis 2, (Comma) together with stories by
Anne Stevenson and Polly Clark.
Joanna M. Weston, born in
England, lives in Western Canada; married, 3 sons, two cats. A writer, knitter,
and gardener. Is a full-time writer of
poetry, short-stories, children’s books and poetry reviews. Has published
internationally for many years online, in print journals and anthologies. Has a middle-reader, The Willow-Tree Girl,
and a chapbook, Watch-Night, in print.
Jackie Wills has
published three collections of poetry. Her first, Powder Tower, was shortlisted
for the 1995 T.S.Eliot prize. The most recent is Fever Tree (Arc 2003). She's
been a ghost writer and journalist. Her poetry's appeared on a dress by Helen
Storey, paper napkins, on cafe walls, canvases and t shirts. She lives in
Brighton. Some of her work can be read on: http://jackiewillspoetry.blogspot.com/
Juliet Wilson is an Edinburgh based poet, reviewer and charity
worker. Her poetry has been widely published and she has performed at various
venues in Edinburgh. Her pamphlet ‘Bougainvillea Dancing’ sold out earlier this
year, having raised over £200 for charities working in Malawi. Her website is
at: http://Juliet.M.Wilson.googlepages.com
and she has a blog of environmental
poetry, crafts and reviews at http://craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com.
Bohdan Yuri: Ukrainian/American
writer living in Florida. “Ukraina: Sons & Daughters” c.1984 -
a collection of short stories. “The
Letters”, c. 1991 - (non-fiction). Has had poems published in various
magazines such as; Niederngasse, Carillon, Thought, Panic, X Magazine, Rearview
Quarterly, etc.
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