Susan Barbour is from Illinois. She received a James B. Reynolds Scholarship for "Metaxu", which explores the history of the artist-muse dynamic. She is reading for an M.St. in English at Oxford.
Josh Bettinger lives and writes in New York City. He is an MFA candidate at Columbia. His poems are forthcoming from Western Humanities Review.
Caroline Bird was short-listed for the Dylan Thomas Prize 2008. Her third collection with Carcanet, "Watering Can", is due out in November. She reads English at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford.
Beverley Bie Brahic lives in Paris and Stanford. Her collection "Against Gravity" is published by Worple. She has translated Hélène Cixous’s Hyperdream (Polity Press) and Ponge’s prose poems.
C.J. Driver is South African by ancestry, birth and upbringing. He completed an M.Phil. at Trinity, Oxford (1965-7) before being a prohibited immigrant in South Africa for thirty years. He has published five novels, six books of poetry (the latest, "So Far: Selected Poems 1960-2004") and a biography.
Maureen Duffy is a poet, playwright and novelist. She has also written a literary biography of Aphra Benn and a study of eroticism in faery fantasy literature. A new novel, "The Orpheus Trail" (Arcadia Books), was published in March this year.
Peter Fraser lived for a time with William Eggleston in the USA. He was short-listed for the Citigroup International Photography Prize in 2004 and is now working on a major series of photographs in London.
John Fuller’s seventeenth collection is "Song & Dance" (Chatto and Windus, 2008). A pamphlet, "The Shell Hymn Book", will be followed in 2010 by a new collection, "Pebble and I". He is working on an opera with Nicola LeFanu, and collaborating with David Hurn on a book of poems and photographs.
Francis Gallagher is a retired teacher from Scotland. He writes epigrams and haiku. He is thinking about writing a novel on Sir Oswald Moseley.
Chrissie Gittins’ poems have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and appeared in The Observer, Mslexia, Poetry Wales and elsewhere. Her second collection, "I’ll Dress One Night As You", has just been published by Salt.
Kevin Halligan has a book of poems about Cambodia in press. He used to live in Cambridge and now lives in Canada. He is thinking of moving to Cameroon next.
Nicholas Jagger has appeared in Agenda, Scintilla, Stand, and The Warwick Review. In 2008 Translation and Literature printed a collection of his versions of Horace, Ovid, Petrarch, Virgil, and Paz.
Terry Kelly is a journalist, based in South Tyneside. Poems have appeared in Poetry Review, The Wide Skirt, The Echo Room. His collection, "Mocking the Afflicted", was published by Here Now in 1993.
Erik Kennedy’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in several little magazines, and he has collaborated with, among others, composer John Supko. He is a freelance editor in New York City.
Robert Klein Engler lives in Illinois and Louisiana. His long poem, 'The Accomplishment of Metaphor and the Necessity of Suffering' (Headwaters Press, 2004), is set partially in New Orleans.
Yusef Komunyakaa’s most recent book of poetry is "Warhorses" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). He teaches in the Creative Writing Program at NYU.
Laura Manuelidis is a physician who appreciates the shapeliness of chromosomes in their raveling, as well as the unraveling of brain (otherwise known as dementia research). She has published a poetry book, "Out of Order", and been nominated for Pushcart prizes.
Thomas Marks
Often embarks
As a Europe-wide tour-guide
(His DPhil aside)
When Les Murray pampered a grampus
it quit its hyperborean campus
and carried him off down a fjord:
what followed then nobody has hjord—
Michael Nardone lives in Oxford and the Northwest Territories, Canada.
Mary O’Donnell’s fifth collection was "The Place of Miracles: New and Selected Poems" (New Island Books, 2006). "The Ark Builders" (Arc Publications) follows this autumn. She is a member of Aosdana.
Adam O’Riordan was born in Manchester in 1982 and educated at Oxford and London. He has just completed a year at The Wordsworth Trust, where he was the youngest ever poet-in-residence.
Pople
rhymes only with opal;
a gem that’s a paean
to Ian.
Kathryn Simmonds’ "Sunday at the Skin Launderette" (Seren) won the 2008 Forward Prize for best first collection. She lives in North London and also writes short stories.
C. E. J. Simons lives in Tokyo. His poems have appeared widely, including TLS, The Wolf and The May Anthology. He is former editor of the Poetry Book Society, London.
Norman Stevens RA (1937-1988), in the words of his friend David Oxtoby, ‘was a “Yorkshireman”’. He studied at the Bradford Regional College of Art and the Royal College of Art, and was elected to the Royal Academy in 1987. Last year The Norman Stevens Tribute Exhibition was held at the Redfern Gallery, London.
Susan Stewart’s most recent collections are "Columbarium", which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and "Red Rover". Her translation, "Love Lessons: Selected Poems of Alda Merini", has just appeared.
Mark Wunderlich is the author of "The Anchorage" (Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 1999), which received the Lambda Literary Award, and "Voluntary Servitude" (Graywolf Press, 2004). He has appeared in Poetry, Slate, The Yale Review, Boston Review, Ploughshares.
Books Received
Ciaran Carson, "Collected Poems", (The Gallery Press, October 2008).
Cliff Forshaw, "A Ned Kelly Hymnal", (The Paper/The Cherry on the Top Press,
2008).
Cliff Forshaw, David Kennedy, Simon Kerr, Christopher Reid, David Wheatley, "Drift", (Humber Mouth Hull City Arts & University of Hull, 2008).
David Grubb, "It Comes With A Bit of Song", (Salt, 2007).
John Haines, "Echoes" (ed. Ann Marie Eldon), (Poetry Monthly Press, 2008).
Derek Mahon, "Life on Earth", (The Gallery Press, October 2008).
Áine Moynihan, "Canals of Memory", (Doghouse, October 2008).
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