Charles Bennett is manager of Ledbury Poetry Festival. A winner of the North West Poetry Pamphlet competition with The Mermaid Room, he has had two previous pamphlets of poetry, William Wordsworth's Socks and The Storm Bell, both from the Hawthorn Press.
Anna Robinson lives in Central London. She works part-time as a librarian and teacher at HMP Brixton. Her poems have been published in a range of magazines.
David H W Grubb, winner of the 1996 Exeter Prize, has published widely. Poetry collections from Loxwood Stoneleigh, Salzburg, and Stride; the latest, Dancing with Bruno (Blackwater) and recent fiction, Sanctuary (Stride). He is editor of An Idea Of Bosnia (Autumn House) and The Gifted Child At School (O.S.A.S.E.).
Carole Bromley won first prize in this year's Staple competition and was runner up for the Housman Society Prize. Her poems have appeared in a number of literary magazines.
copland smith was born in Liverpool, now lives in Manchester. His first collection, one-eyed seller of garlic, was published by Headland in 1994. He has twice been a runner-up in the National Poetry Competition. He now spends his time running creative writing workshops and writing a crime novel that repeatedly fails to reach its denouement.
Roy Blackman lives in Suffolk, where he co-edits Smiths Knoll. A Hawthornden Fellow in 1993, Rockingham published his first collection, As Lords Expected, in 1996.
Kerri Moore has had a number of poems published in magazines, but enjoys printing and distributing her own booklets: The depths of our Spirits Debts, Nothing Personal and Before She Can Smell you.
Graham Brown who is 17, is a writer, a student, a skinhead and a self-confessed computer nerd, who aims to make something of his life when he gets the chance.
Rod Riesco's poems have been published in a number of magazines. He is a freelance translator and secretary of Bank Street Writers in Bolton. Currently doing an MA in Creative Writing.
Frances Nagle's collection, Steeplechase Park is published by Rockingham. Her pamphlet of poems for children, published by Dagger Press, bears the contentious title, You can't call a hedgehog Hopscotch.
Peter Knaggs has shovelled coleslaw, drilled holes in polos and painted smarties. He currently works in a bookshop in Hull.
Virgil Suárez, born in Havana, Cuba, now lives in the United States. A prolific writer of prose and poetry, among his many published works are four novels, and four collections of poetry. His essays, stories, poems and translations continue to appear nationally and internationally. He divides his time between Miami and Tallahassee where he lives. He is currently working on a new novel, Sonny Manteca's Blues, and a new collection of poems.
John Calvert is a member of Manchester Poets. His poems have been published in several magazines.
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- Poetry Cornwall
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- Poetry Salzburg Review
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- Rialto, The
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