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

Ariella lives and studies in London.

David Burton is a semi-retired teacher with a new (red) car.

Gillian Carpenter was born in 1967 and studied at De La Salle, Manchester. She is currently doing practically nothing (job offers via us, please).

Ghislaine Cassells runs The Tarot Centre in Huddersfield and is a freelance photographer amongst other things.

Stanley Cook was born near Sheffield in 1922. His publications are listed under the article on him, but we'd like to plug here his latest pamphlet, Barnesdale (Smith/Doorstop).

Duncan Curry's phenomenal new collection is due any minute from Smith/Doorstop (again).

Ann Dancy's first collection was published by Smith/Doorstop (yet again); her new one is from Blue Rose. She is the librarian at Doncaster Women's Centre.

Kate Dransfield was born in Bradford in 1965 and lives her life under the influence of Saturn and Bailey's.

Ian Duhig lives in Leeds, won the National Poetry Competition in 1987 and this year the Northern Ditto, and has a collection due from Bloodaxe.

Gillian Ewing lives in Malton, teaches English and has published in several magazines, sometimes pseudonymously, which is a Scrabble word.

Fish is currently squatting in Manchester and living off his wits and other people's.

Janet Fisher co-runs The Poetry Business. Her collection, Listening To Dancing is still available from Slow Dancer.

Linda France was born in Wailsend and now lives in the North Tyne Valley, near Wark. She is a tutor for the WEA and has published in many magazines. She has just completed a first collection, Red.

Jean Hartley's book, Philip Larkin, The Marvel Press And Me (Carcanet) is essential reading, and not just for Larkinites.

Geoff Hattersley runs the Wide Skirt magazine and press in Huddersfield. He has lost weight recently. A spanking new book Port of Entry (Littlewood) is a must: 'I must get his new Smith/Doorstop first'.

Peter Haythorne is a red-hot, figuratively speaking, Doncaster writer.

Steve Hobson was born in 1952 in Leicester. Now teaches Drama at Dewsbury College, has appeared in lots of magazines and was a prizewinner in the Yorkshire Open.

James Keery either didn't reply with biog notes or we lost them. You often see his poems about. Articles recently in Wide Skirt and The Rialto plus the start of a debate about Ian McMillan and the future of Grevel Lindop in PN Review.

John Killick runs Littlewood/Nanholme Press in Hebden Bridge/Todmorden and has at least two collections of his own in print.

John Lancaster's fabulous first collection is still available from Giant Steps; a second is forthcoming from Smith/Doorstop (who?).

David Morley won a huge figure in the latest Gregory Awards. He was born in 1964. Releasing Stone (Nanholme Press) received a Tyrone Guthrie Award from Northern Arts recently. His Under The Rainbow (Bloodaxe) is an exploration of writers and artists in schools. Buy both or stay square.

Anaïs Nin is one of the very few writers in The North whose books you can get easily in bookshops.

William Park was born in 1962 in West London and is a former psychiatric nurse. This year he was writer-in-residence at St Martin's College, Lancaster. His poems are quite rightly in magazines everywhere.

Derek Pell is from New York. His new book Elements of Style is forthcoming from joe soap's canoe.

Andrew Penwarden lives in Huddersfield and is part of The Poetry Business team. Poems recently taken by Poetry Nottingham, Radio Leeds and Wide Skirt.

Carole Robertson was born in Leeds but now lives in the fastest growing town in Western Europe (Swindon). Poetry in magazines and anthologies (including Carol Ann Duffy's Home And Away).

Stan Sagan is an ex-artist sunk to working for The Poetry Business.

Myra Schneider has three books from Littlewood, and a pamphlet from Smith/Doorstop is due. She lives in London.

Martin Stannard lives in Felixstowe where he edits joe soap's canoe. Slow Dancer publish his humdinger The Gracing Of Days.

Cliff Yates was born in Birmingham in 1952. He now lives in Chester with his wife and three children, where he works as a teacher.