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Steven Blyth was born in Bolton in 1968. He won an Eric Gregory Award in 1994 and has published a pamphlet with Redbeck Press, The Gox. A full-length collection, Baddy, is out from Peterloo this year. He co-edits the magazine Prop.

Dermot Bolger was born in Dublin in 1959. He is author of six novels, including most recently Father’s Music (Flamingo, 1997). He is editor of The Picador Book of Contemporary Irish Fiction. His plays have received such awards as the Samuel Beckett Prize and two Edinburgh Fringe Firsts.

Polly Clark is winner of an Eric Gregory Award, 1997, and has been published in various magazines. She is currently completing an M.A. dissertation on Thomas Hardy at Oxford Brookes University, while also working at OUP.

Adam Czerniawski’s Poezje zebrane (Collected Poems) appeared in Poland in 1993. Recent publications in English include a translation of Jan Kochanowski’s Treny and a reissue of People on a Bridge, poems by Wislawa Szymborska.

Peter Daniels has published Peacock Luggage with Moniza Alvi, 1992, and Be Prepared, 1994 (both Smith/Doorstop). He co-edited an AIDS anthology Jugular Defences (Oscars Press, 1994) and is listings editor of Poetry London Newsletter.

Nils Eskestad is working on a Ph.D. at St. Andrews involving the poetry of Seamus Heaney, Les Murray, Derek Walcott and Tony Harrison.

Nick Gammage read English at Bristol University, where he wrote his dissertation on the poetry of Ted Hughes. He is Director of Information for the Office of Telecommunications.

Ivy Garlitz was born in Miami in 1963. She spent five years teaching in Germany and Poland, before moving to Britain. She is currently completing a Ph.D. in Creative and Critical Writing at the University of East Anglia.

Giles Goodland recently had a book-length poem, Littoral, published by Oversteps Books.

John Greening’s recent collections of poetry are The Coastal Path (Headland) and The Bocase Stone (Dedalus). A New and Selected is due in 1998.

Vona Groarke’s first collection, Shale, was published by Gallery Press in 1994. She currently works in Galway, where she is Writer in Residence at UCG.

Philip Gross’s most recent collections are I.D. and (for young people) Scratch City (both Faber) and a poetry/art combination with John Eaves and F.J. Kennedy, A Cast of Stones (Digging Deeper, Avebury). He teaches on the Creative Writing M.A. at Bath College of Higher Education.

Martha Kapos read Classics at Harvard, then studied Painting and History of Art at the Chelsea College of Art where she now teaches. The Boy Under The Water was published by the Many Press in 1989. She was awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship in 1994.

David Kennedy is co-editor of The New Poetry (1993). A book of essays, New Relations: The Refashioning of British Poetry 1980-1994, was published by Seren this year; and a first collection, The Elephant’s Typewriter, came out with Scratch. He studies in the Graduate School at Sheffield University.

Michael Longley was born in Belfast, and read Classics at TCD. Gorse Fires won the Whitbread Prize for Poetry in 1992. His latest collection of poems is The Ghost Orchid, published in 1995.

John Lyon is Senior Lecturer in English at Bristol University. He has published widely on Shakespeare, the novel, and contemporary poetry.

Miriam Obrey lives in Malvern where she runs a poetry workshop for Malvern Arts Workshop. Her collection A Case for More Heads was published by Flarestack Publishing in 1996.

James Priory teaches English at Bradford Grammar School.

Sheenagh Pugh has published eight collections with Seren, of which the latest is Id’s Hospit (1997).

Justin Quinn was born in Dublin in 1968 and attended TCD. His first collection, The O’o’a’a’ Bird (Carcanet), was published in 1995. He is working on a study of Wallace Stevens and lectures at the Charles University, Prague.

John Redmond is a poet and critic from south Co. Dublin.

Peter Robinson’s most recent book of poems is Lost and Found (Carcanet, 1997). He is co-editing a collection of essays on the work of Roy Fisher.

Mark Roper’s first collection, The Hen Ark (Peterloo and Salmon, 1990), won the Aldeburgh Festival Prize, 1991. His second collection, Catching The Light, appeared from Lagan last summer, and is due from Peterloo in the autumn.

William Scammell has published eight volumes of poetry, a critical study of Keith Douglas, and edited a book of Ted Hughes’s selected prose, Winter Pollen. He writes for the Independent on Sunday and Stand, amongst others.

Michael Tolkien is a retired Secondary School teacher from Leicestershire. He reviews for various periodicals. His first collection of poems, Learning Not to Touch, is shortly due from Redbeck Press.

Andrew Zawacki is the U.K. editor of Verse. He reviews for the TLS, PN Review and Poetry Review, and has poems forthcoming in The New Republic and Denver Quarterly.