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Ian McMillan is one of the most well known and versatile poets in
England today. A frequent performer and entertainer he has achieved a wide and varied audience for his poetry and stand-up comedy. His latest collection, Perfect Catch is published by Carcanet. Sought after for his humour, wit and comment he’s frequently appears on TV, as well as presenting the BBC Radio Three poetry-lit programme The Verb.

Michael Curtis has a pamphlet of ‘American poems’, Red Meat
Dreams (Redbeck Press) and a short story soon out from Comma
Press; with two new collections out this year, Presence (Picture Poems) and Long Haul (Redbeck).

Helen Burke, widely published in magazines and anthologies, has won The Suffolk Poetry Prize, the Manchester and Norwich competitions. Her collections include: Poetry – Helen Burke (1997), Island of Dreams (1997) and Gift (2001).

Brian McCusker is a teacher in York whose interests span music, writing and film.

Matt Black, from Sheffield, writes poetry & prose. He has an
allotment novella published, Plot 161 (Spout), enjoys working in
schools and festivals, with his Poetry Jukebox, the Fanti-Elastical
Zing-Zong Poetry Imagination Machine, and with musicians and
visual artists.

Jo Pearson is a regular contributor to Dream Catcher. A selection of her poems appeared in the anthology A Pint Of Tristram Shandy
(Route, 2001).

Emma Harding, lives and writes in Middlesex.

Peter Knaggs lives, works and writes in Hull. He was a prize winner in the National Poetry Competition (2001) and Yorkshire Prize Winner in the Yorkshire Open Poetry Competition (2001). Cowboy Hat (Half Crown, 2001). He has a new collection Slow Moustache soon out from Skrev Press.

Carole Bromley tutors in creative writing for York University’s Centre for Continuing Education. First-stage winner in Poetry Business Book and Pamphlet Competition, her pamphlet Unscheduled Halt (Smith/Doorstop) is due out in 2005.

Jill Harrington-Fox lives in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. Her poetry has won prizes in the Niagara Region and been published in more than 30 national and international anthologies and periodicals. She’s a member of the League of Canadian Poets.

Gillian Carpenter has previously been published in The North, New Welsh Review and Poetry Monthly. She has won prizes in competitions including The Arvon International. She lives in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire.

Daithidh MacEochaidh, educated at Hull, Huddersfield, York St.
John (Philosophy, English and Poetry) is an award winning poet, short
story writer and novelist, founder and editor of Skrev Press
(www.skrev-press.com). His novel, Like A Dog To His Vomit, was published by Route (2000) and a selection of his poetry appeared in the anthology, A Pint of Tristram Shandy (Route, 2001). His latest collection is Ramraid with the poet Gareth Spark (Skrev Press, 2003).

Stephen Kopel is San Francisco’s ‘pedalling poet’. Over 210 journals worldwide have taken his work. He’s created what he calls a Word Painters poetry programme for branch libraries in San Francisco. His book Spritz (Regent Press) appeared in 2003.

John W. Pratt lives in rural Derbyshire. He writes about his extended family in Australia, his own childhood and the absurdities of his life. He has published in Envoi, Nottingham Poetry International, Iota and various competition anthologies. He won the NAWG prize for free verse in 1999.

Rennie Parker is a poet and critic, currently living in Lincolnshire.
Her first collection was Secret Villages (Flambard, 2001), and her book Ivor Gurney – An Introduction was published by the Ivor Gurney Society and Trust in 2004.

India Russell was appointed Junior Research Fellow of the
Department of German, King’s College, London, specialising in 18th
and 19th century Literature, researching the poet Friedrich Hölderlin. In 1993 she toured her one-woman show on Ibsen’s last plays, using her own translation. She has written poetry from an early age but did not begin submitting work to journals until 2000. She is now published widely.

Philip Burton, in the last three years has had 150 poems in magazines: PN Review, Other Poetry, Orbis, The Frogmore Papers, Prism International (Canada), Poetry Nottingham to name a few. His pamphlet collections are: Quarrelling Along the Camber, The Raven’s Diary, Places Off the Map and Blue Grass.

William Oxley. Over a long literary career he’s been widely published in British magazines and newspapers and in the USA. His recent collections include Reclaiming the Lyre: New and Selected Poems (Rockingham Press, 2001) and published by Bluechrome, London Visions (2005).

Adrian Tellwright is better known for his jam making than his baking and pie-making. He has never managed to get a soufflé to rise, but has been managing the Dream Catcher writers workshop in York since October 2000.

Andrew Darlington, from a journalistic background, is a widely
published poet, with Euroshima Mon Amour – a collection of 32
Science Fiction poems From The Inner Mind To The Outer Limits, was published in 2001 by Hilltop Press. He can be contacted at [email protected]

Becky De Oliveira, grew up in the USA, now lives in the UK. She’s completed a creative writing MA (Lancaster University) and had one story published in a US online journal, Segue.

Gloria Grove-Stephensen. Early, she escaped her hometown in Co Durham and worked as a barmaid in London. Since then she’s lived in Kenya, Berlin, Cyprus, returning she trained to be an artist. Now she writes whatever she fancies and paints as the mood takes her.

Jeremy Duffield performs his own poetry and leads creative writing workshops. He’s chair of Nottingham Poetry Society. He’s appeared in such literary magazines as Interpreter’s House, Iota and Envoi. His collection Oak Apples and Heavenly Kisses was published by Headland in 2000.

Flynn Deloughry has moved to Glossop.

Sam Gardiner (Lincolnshire) member of Market Rasen Writers’
Group, won a 2002 Arts Council Writers’ Award. In 1994 won the
National Poetry competition. His work has recently appeared in TLS, Arete, Dream Catcher. A new collection, The Picture Never Taken was published by Smith/Doorstep in 2004.

Wendy Cope is one of Britain’s most popular poets. She received a
Cholmondeley Award in 1987 and was awarded the Michael Braude Award for Light Verse (American Academy of Arts and Letters) in 1995. Her poetry collections span from Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis (1986), to If I Don’t Know (2001), which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award. She has edited anthologies including The Orchard Book of Funny Poems (1993), Is That The New Moon? (1989), The Funny Side: 101 Humorous Poems (1998), The Faber Book of Bedtime Stories (1999) and Heaven on Earth: 101 Happy Poems (2001). She is also the author of two books for children, Twiddling Your Thumbs (1988) and The River Girl (1991). Wendy Cope is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Thomas Clark is a poet and freelance writer currently on the
production staff of BBC Scotland. He’s also written essays, reviews, analyses, theatre and screenplays. Selected items from his output can be found on the internet.

Sue Laver is a member of the Lowdham Writers’ and Nottingham
Writers’ Groups, playing an active part in both. She enjoys writing
short stories, some of which have been published and also produces
the occasional humorous monologue. She is currently working on her first novel, a light-hearted look at modern-day village life.

Marc Harris’s poems have appeared in UK magazines (including
Envoi, Poetry Scotland and The New Welsh Review), in US publications such as Confrontation and his work recently appeared in the International Erotic Review.

Valerie Macleod — an enthusiast of E.E. Cummings and Robert
Burns — is a long-standing member of the Dream Catcher Creative
Writing Workshop in York.

André Mangeot lives in Cambridge, working as a charity fundraiser. His poems have appeared in many UK and American magazines, including two earlier issues of Dream Catcher. He is a member of the performance group Joy of Six, www.joyofsix.co.uk. A short collection of his work, Natural Causes (Shoestring Press) appeared in 2003. His first full-length collection, Mixer, is published by Egg Box Press in 2005.

Elaine Hatfield’s first novel, Rosie, was published by Sterling House (2000). She’s had over twenty short stories published in American, Canadian, Australian and Indian literary magazines. She is currently a professor at the University of Hawaii and president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex.

Chris Kinsey received an Arts Council of Wales writer’s award
(2000/1). She writes freelance; running sessions on ‘writing and
recovery’ with people affected by mental illness. She occasionally
works with learning disabilities. Her first full collection is Kung Fu
Lullabies (Ragged Raven Press) 2004.

Angela Morkos has had poems and short stories published in Garbaj, Awen and Monomyth as well as in a book called Rhyme and Reason (United Press Ltd).

Dan Wyke has appeared in a number of magazines, receiving an Eric Gregory Award (1999) and has out a published pamphlet Scattering Ashes by Waterloo Press.

Della McGowan has written for many years with several poems
published in UK magazines. She has recently completed her first
book.

Joolz Denby’s latest collection is Errors of the Spirit (Flambard). Her first novel, Stone Baby won the New Crime Writer of the Year Award. A constant poetry performer she has a worldwide following, at the same time her third novel, Billy Morgan has been short-listed for the Orange Prize 20005. She lives in Bradford.

David Mason, ex-comic script writer, with poems in magazines and broadcast on radio, claims to write in ‘an appropriately postmodern mode of confused playful distrustful bewilderment at his own confused playful distrustful bewilderment’.

Martin Stannard lives in Nottingham. His most recent collections are Difficulties and Exultations (Smith/Doorstop, 2001) and Coral (Leafe Press, 2004). Website www.exultationsanddifficulties.blogspot.com ‘publishes poetry, reviews and other randomnesses, thereby adding to
the world’s entertainments.’

Elizabeth Stott, a physics graduate, has published short stories and
poetry in various magazines, with a collection of short stories, Familiar Possessions published by Northern Lights 2002. She’s working on a novel.

Martina Evans is widely published in magazines and newspapers; with two collections from Anvil Press All Alcoholics are Charmers (1998) and another in 2004. Her third novel, No Drinking, No Dancing, No Doctors (Bloomsbury, 2000) won an Arts Council award. She’s currently working on her forth novel.

Philip Dunn: Born in Scotland, now lives in Cheshire, and is a curator at a Manchester museum. Recent poems are on Bob Dylan,
astronomy, and Christian relics; currently, verse on modern
democracy (post-9/11); and next planned subject, J.S. Bach.

Gordon Wardman, ex-pat Geordie, long resident in Essex. Published novels in the 1980s. Since then various poetry collections have appeared: the latest, Caedmon, the Common Shoddy of the Tongue (Odyssey).

Daphne Rock’s first collection appeared from Peterloo in 1998. An arts council grant helped her produce poetry booklets on mining —the Peak District, and Blaenafon, South Wales. Recently she’s finished a poetry pamphlet about the Isle of Sheppey.

C.A. Coiffait is ex-pat Scot (she says) ‘stranded on the Humber by
long-shore drift’. She’s been widely published over 12 years, including in Iron, Acumen and The Rialto.

Jessie Smith’s work include: Hospital Revue, Gigi Comes To Figi, Suva Town Hall, 1961, Book and Lyrics. She won a short story competition in 1998. On the speaker's circuit with 'Having Fun with Poetry'; recently her poems and stories have been published in Crystal and Creatures Features (Cyprus).