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Anne Born, writer and translator, lives in South Devon, tutors for the Arvon Foundation, WEA etc. and has five poetry collections. ‘Figures For Landscape’ is due soon from Headland.

Liz Dearden, born in Newcastle on Tyne, now lives in Hebden Bridge and works at North West Arts Association in Manchester. Her work has appeared in Writing Women, Cyphers, Iron, Singing Brink and What Big Eyes You’ve Got. She says Temescal is a Mayan sweat house, used by women during childbirth. It is an Aztec word - teme meaning to bathe and calli meaning house.

John Figueroa is Jamaican by birth and Caribbean by instinct and experience. He is serving his retirement in the UK. A poet and academic, for twenty years he held Chairs in the West Indies, Puerto Rico and Nigeria and is also an anthologist and critic. He has published poems and critical articles in various publications in the UK, USA and in France where he was recently honoured by the Municipal Council of Bour-en-Bresse for his poems, written over a number of years, on le Eglise de Brou. His books include ‘Caribbean Voices 1 & 2, ‘Caribbean Writers’ and ‘Ignoring Hurts’.

Mara Bergman worked in London as an editor of children’s books for six years before moving to America last September. Her work appears in ‘Hard Lines 3, Rialto’ and various magazines in the USA.

Pauline Holdstock’s novel ‘The Blackbird’s Song’ previously published in Canada and shortlisted for the W. H. Smith/Books in Canada First Novel Award, is published in this country by Peter Halban Publishers.

Paul Mills has published two books with Carcanet Press, ‘North Carriageway’ and ‘Third Person’, and for two years was Gregory Fellow in Poetry at Leeds University. He now teaches literature and writing at the College of Ripon and York St. John, and lives in North Yorkshire.

Madeline Munro grew up on a farm in the Scottish Highlands. She has been a joint 1st winner in the Cheltenham Poetry Competition and in the Scottish Open Poetry Competition. More recently she was among prize winners in the National Poetry Competition.

Alistair Wisker has taught for the University of Keele, the Polytechnic of the South Bank, the Open University and the University Board of Extramural Studies. Currently he is Coordinator of Adult Continuing Education at Bedford College of Higher Education. His poems have appeared in Ambit, Poetry Review, Stand and many other magazines. His book on the writing of Nathanael West is due from Macmillan in April 1990 and he is currently working on a novel. His writing on Education has been published by Longman and Batsford.

Peter Porter says his ‘Le Jardin Suspendu’ is deliberately in an archaic mode, a sort of pastiche Augustan view of Yuppiedom, with a flavour of fin-de-siècle about it (perhaps even Flaubert and Mallarmé).

Bruce McLean is a sculptor, painter and performer and a book about him by Mel Gooding is being published by Phaidon in April 1990.

Edwin Brock has a new collection of poems being published by the Enitharnon Press in May 1990.