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

Grace Anderson, fine art photographer, hails from Scotland but now lives in the Ariège, SW France with her husband, the singer/songwriter Fraser Anderson, and their three children. See her website for examples of her work and for information on her comprehensive photographic services. www.thetwentycollection.com

Byron Beynon's work has appeared in numerous publications including The Independent, Quadrant (Australia), New Welsh Review, Planet, Cambria, Agenda, Wasafiri, Landfall (New Zealand), Cyphers (Dublin), Stand Magazine and Poetry Ireland. He has co-edited the literary magazine, Roundyhouse. His most recent collection is Cuffs, published by Rack Press (2008).

Patricia Bishop has been widely published in both anthologies and magazines and her fifth collection is due for publication this year. She is perhaps the only poet whose work has been trundled round the Cotswolds on the side of a dust-cart.

Kate Lermitte Campbell has just completed a DPhil at Oxford University that centered on the work of four contemporary French writers. She has been primarily based in Paris for the last six years. Her DPhil thesis has been recommended to the OUP for publication.

Eddie Castellan 48, is a writer and musician, based near Carcassonne, southwest France since 2002. A former daily newspaper sub-editor, his work includes poetry and song writing. He was recording engineer on Stanley Adler's electric cello album Arias Under Curves, released in May 2009.

Michael Curtis has performed across Europe, on the radio, in schools, libraries and at numerous other venues. In 2006, his first children's book was published and his selected poems Taking Shape was published by Maison de Poesie Nord/Pas de Calais.

Rani Drew is a poet and fiction writer. She has published poetry and short stories in North American, UK and Indian magazines. Her first poetry collection Celestial Seductions came out in 2002, and her short stories Around the World in Twelve Stories in 2003. Other collections followed. The latest, Plays - 1: Chinese Women's Long March to Tiananmen is out this year and her first novel, The Dog's Tale is being published by Saga-Whyte Press.

Barbara Dordi has been published in magazines, anthologies and on the Internet. Her latest collection Moving Still was published by Cinnamon Press earlier this year. She founded Equinox - A Poetry Journal - in 1990, editing the magazines since its inception. (www.poetrymagazines.org.uk)

Briege Duffaud grew up in Northern Ireland and spent much of her adult life in France where she worked as a freelance writer. In the nineties she published two novels and a short story collection. She now lives in London and is writing short stories.

Barry Elphick studied at Kingston School of Art before beginning a career in graphic design when he had his own studio in Covent Garden, London. He and his wife Emmy set up a business creating educational works for children and greetings cards. Their creations have been shown in the Design Centre, London, the NEC Birmingham and at exhibition centres in New York and Frankfurt.

Peter Eustace was born in Birmingham and has lived in Italy for 33 years, working as a translator. His first book Vistas was published in June 2006 with English and Italian versions side-by-side. A second book Weathering is due out later in 2009 in the same format. His poems hve been published recently in Equinox, Carillon, Borderlines and Trespass magazines.

Lizzie Fincham was born in Gower and has lived in Wales, Ireland, New Zealand, Greece & Sussex. Her poems have been published in Equinox, The North, Poetry Wales, New Welsh Review, and Borderlines. Her collection was shortlisted for Poetry Business competition in 2005.

Richard Gordon-Freeman worked in advertising in the sixties. Subsequently he became a scriptwriter, working on documentary films, often with his wife, Mary Morgan, who was associate producer on The Sweeney, Van der Valk, etc. They divide their time between Twickenham and Portbail (Manche).

Louise Hume is a lecturer and writer based in Brighton, although she used to live in Paris and spends a lot of time with relatives in Normandy.

Sarah James is a prize-winning journalist, poet and short story writer. Her poetry and fiction have been widely published in anthologies and literary journals, as well as online. The Oxford modern languages graduate has also achieved extensive success in competitions. Her website is at www.sarah-james.co.uk.

Fred Johnston is a novelist, reviewer, poet and playwright, and founder of Galway city's annual literature festival Cúirt; more recently, he founded The Western Writers Centre, Galway. His work in French has been published in a wide variety of journals in France and Ireland. His translations of the work of French poet Colette Wittorski are due out later this year from Cinnamon Press.

Steve Krayer lives in West Wales. Her publications include a translation of R.M. Rilke's The Book of Hours and two collections of poetry. A third is in preparation.

James Lawless was born in Dublin and divides his time between Kildare and West Cork. Novelist, prize-winning playwright and poet, he is included in Irish Writers online. His book on modern poetry, Clearing The Tangled Wood: Poetry as a way of seeing the world contains his own translations from Irish and Spanish. He writes book review for the online New Review, for the Irish Times and The Stinging Fly magazine.

Gill Learner has been published in a variety of magazines and has had her work read on the radio. She was shortlisted for the last three Keats-Shelley Prizes and has twice been highly commended in the Petra Kenney competition. In May 2008 she was awarded the Poetry Society's Hamish Canham Prize.

Beatrice Murail is a journalist and linguist. She was born in France and lives in the UK

Rosemary Norton is married with two grown sons. She has a BA from the Open University and has worked for twenty-five years in Family Planning. She has travelled widely ie Europe, USA, Australia and has also lived for some years in India. She has been writing for many years.

Lawrence Rich worked for the National Trust for 30 years as a writer. He now writes monthly pieces for countryside magazines and has published two non-fiction books in the same vein. He lived in south-west France for 11 years when he began to write poetry. His work has appeared in various anthologies.

Helen Steenhuis is an American who has been living in France since 1981.

Mary Ann Sullivan is a professional writer who works in several literary genres. The New York Times called her first novel, Child of War, an "earnest first novel," and that book was named a Notable Book in Social Studies by the National Council of Social Studies in the United States. A chapbook of her poetry called Mending My Black Sweater is published by Eration Editions in New York City. With a content concentratino in Digital Poetry, she received a Doctor of Arts Degree from Franklin Pierce University, where she teaches writing and hopes to establish a Digital Poetry Center. Her digital poem, 'Shaking the Spiders Out' has been pubilshed by the BBC Arts Online.