Poetry Magazines - The best collection of poetry magazines online - Simon Armitage

Simon Armitage is ZOOMing off from Marsden into the stratosphere wielding his massey niblick. If you've got the Bloodaxe collection but not the Smith/Doorstop, you know what to do (and only £1.50).

John Ash has three cracking collections from Carcanet and a fourth is on its way. He lives in New York.

Keith Ashton lives in Lincoln where he was born 1951, paralysed at birth from muscular dystrophy, graduated in Fine Arts 1975, has been writing for six years.

Maxwell Boyle is from the poetic capital of England when he isn't globetrotting; his Sunday Papers is still available from us.

John Coldwell was born in London but now lives in the last resort, Ramsgate; he has had six booklets published through Salford Pocket Books, and his work has appeared in many magazines.

Angela Cooke is a rising Northern star, about whom we could say much more if we knew it.

David Crystal is a native of Prudhoe, Northumberland (wave to the folks, Dave) hut now lives and works in London.

Tim Cumming also lives and works in London (what is it with you guys? The great wen is not what it was - fly North); his first collection is due out later this year from Smith/Doorstop.

Gordon Day lives in Wakefield but frequently ventures over to Huddersfield; more and more of his work is getting published.

John Duffy is from Glasgow hut lives guess where. He works two days a week and spends the rest of the time on housework and writing (so that's not work, John?).

Joe Fearn has been collecting wholesale scandal from Northern College to retail at Hull University, where he will be in one sense at least a mature student. Joe is a brilliant performer of his work: catch him when you can.

Rhian Gallagher is from New Zealand and is a student at Birkbeck College, London.

Stephen Gorlic is a student of Art and Design at Huddersfield Technical College, hoping to go on a degree course next year. We hope so too.

Harry Guest has a number of substantial and wonderful collections from Anvil.

Abigail Hardy is a student with Stephen Gorlic at the Tech - we wish her the same good luck.

Geoff Hattersley, he of the Wide Skirt, is one of the Titans supporting poetry in Huddersfield; his joint collection with John Lancaster, Split Shift, is out NOW, available from Smith/Doorstop. Don't miss it.

James Keery is a teacher and lives in Warrington. He is likely to have something out from Open Township soon.

Mimi Khalvati originates from Iran and lives in Highgate with her children; she was the joint winner (with David Morley) of last year's Poetry Business Pamphlet Competition, and the book will be out this summer.

Frances King studied Art at Oxford Polytechnic and now works in Kirklees. She's happy to be commissioned by voluntary i.e. poor organisations.

Steven Komarnyckyj lives in Huddersfield; he has been in mental nursing and teacher training, and is now on a creative writing training course.

M Levene is from Bradford but migrated to Bristol where he lectures in German at the University. He has had much work published in magazines.

David Morgan was a student, then a copywriter. Who knows where he is now. Get in touch, David!

David Morley lives near Sheffield; he was the other joint winner in our Competition, as well as having won countless awards and travelled the world's trouble spots. He is often spotted in Huddersfield.

Graham Mort's latest collection is Sky Burial (Dangeroo) and he has two brilliant others still available from Littlewood: A Country On Fire and Into The Ashes.

Frances Noon is a part-time lecturer in Art and Design at Hudderfield Tech; she has had successful exhibitions at Wakefield and Leeds; she is currently looking for work.

Rennie Parker's bicycle, on which she trundles round the flats of Lincolnshire, is a reincarnation of Tennyson.

Jackie Wills lives in Surrey but is nevertheless interesting; she has played bass in a funk band, is a freelance journalist and part-time M.A. student.

Cohn Wiltshire is an Administrative Officer in the Civil Service in Leicester; organises 'Poetry Leicester' readings.

Patrick Yarker is 29 and teaches in London; a lot of work in magazines, more than that we cannot say.