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ANNA ADAMS lives in Sussex. She was born in London and her first publication was in Freedom, the anarchist fortnightly. She moved to North Yorkshire in 1956 and raised a family: started writing poetry seriously in 1961 and has had twelve books published, most recently Flying Underwater, Peterloo, 2004. She has worked as a teacher, a designer and as a freelance artist. Her water-colours are sought after.

SIMON ARMITAGE was in Suffolk in July appearing at the Latitude Festival, near Blythburgh, both with his band The Scaremongers and in the Poetry Tent. His most recent book is The Not Dead, Pomona Press, 2008. The Wikipedia claim that he was at one time a trainee funeral director is, he says, untrue.

ELIZABETH BARRETT’s Walking on Tiptoe and Other Poems was published by Bluechrome Press in 2007. A selection from her 2005 collection The Bat Detector has been released as a spoken word CD with solo viola compositions by Robin Ireland (Meridien Records, 2008).

GERARD BENSON is Bradford’s first Poet Laureate; he’s also one of Poems on the Underground team of three and has co-edited their many anthologies. He’s had five collections of his poems for adults published and four of poems for children, and is currently working on a new collection to be published by Smith/Doorstop in 2010.

CLARE BEST lives in Lewes, Sussex. Her pamphlet Treasure Ground, poems written during a residency at Woodlands Organic Farm, Lincolnshire, is due from HappenStance. She is currently completing a collection called Selfportrait Without Breasts.

NINA BOYD is a student on the MA Poetry course at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has had a number of poems published, and is working on a biography of Mary Sophia Allen, one of the first British policewomen.

SUE BOYLE lives in Bath where she organises the Bath Poetry Cafe. She studied in Poetry School workshops for three years with Tim Liardet and has had poems in Acumen, Magma, The Interpreter’s House, The Rialto and the Forward Anthology.

DIANA BRODIE is a New Zealander living in Cambridge. Her first published poem appeared in Enitharmon’s Poetry School anthology, Entering the Tapestry, and she has recently completed her first collection.

ALAN BROWNJOHN was born in London in 1931, thus was at school during the severe winter of 1947 - depicted in his latest novel Windows On The Moon, Black Spring Press, 2009. His Collected Poems (Enitharmon) appeared in 2006.

MARIANNE BURTON is studying for a Creative Writing MA at Royal Holloway. Her pamphlet The Devil’s Cut (Smiths Knoll) was a Poetry Book Society Choice.

PATRICK CARRINGTON is the author of Hard Blessings (MSR Publishing 2008), Thirst (Codhill 2007) and Rise, Fall and Acceptance (MSR Publishing 2006). He lives in New Jersey and has had poems in many U.S. and international journals.

JOANNA CLARK lives in Ealing and works in biomedical research at King’s College, London. She has had poems published in The Rialto, Pitshanger Poetry, ECS Associates Newsletter; one (bounced off the moon via Jodrell Bank) in Times Books, and another set to music by Charmaine Cooper.

JENNIFER COPLEY is in Cumbria, trying to live a life of indolence on a miniscule teacher’s pension. Her latest collection Beans In Snow will be published by Smokestack later this year.

MARTYN CRUCEFIX’s numerous prizes include an Eric Gregory award and a Hawthornden Fellowship; he has five collections, most recent, 2004, is An English Nazareth, from Enitharmon, who also published, in 2006, his translation of Rilke’s Duino Elegies. Information at www.poetrypf.co.uk/martyncrucefixpage.html

NICOLA DALY lives in Cheshire: her stories are published by Honno Press and in a Northwest Arts Council anthology: poems in Envoi, Magma, Myslexia, and The Shop.

JANE DEVERSON is an ex-journalist and coauthor with Charles Hamblett of Generation X, a best-selling book about teenagers in the 1960s. Her poems appear in various magazines from time to time.

ALAN DIXON’s latest collection is The Ogling of Lady Luck (Shoestring, 2005): earlier collections were published by The Fortune Press, Poet and Printer and Redbeck Press. His translation of 30 poems by Max Jacob, The Seaweed’s Secret, is due soon.

ALAN DUNNETT is Course Director of Drama Centre’s MA Screen at Central St Martins College of Art and Design. Work can be found in Weyfarers, Dream Catcher and at alan dunnett.co.uk His poetry has recently been used by the dance group Compania Pendiente.

KATY EVANS-BUSH writes the literary blog Baroque in Hackney. Her first collection Me And The Dead is published by Salt, and her poetry and essays have been published on both sides of the Atlantic. Recent work is in Poetry London, Seam and The Dark Horse.

CHARLOTTE GANN lives in Sussex. After years working as an editor she is doing in MA in Poetry and Personal Development. She has poems in Iota and South, and won a prize in the Cafe Writers Competition.

SAM GARDINER’s collections include Protestant Windows (2000) and The Night Ships (2008), both published by Lagan Press.

DAVID GILBERT lives in London and works in the NHS. His poems have been published in Brittle Star, Magma and Smiths Knoll and in the Templar anthology Buzz.

PETER GILMOUR was born on Glasgow, where he still lives with his partner and one of his two sons: poems in a range of magazines.

IDA AFFLECK GRAVES was born in 1902. She was published by the Hogarth Press, Faber and OUP among others. She continued writing into extreme old age, her work appearing in many editions of The Rialto, including the first. 2009 marks the tenth anniversary of her death. This previously unpublished poem was found recently among her papers by her literary executor, Peter Wallis.

PETE HALLIWELL lives with his partner in Leicester and works as a nurse. This is his first poem to appear in The Rialto. He’s currently putting together a first collection.

LYDIA HARRIS is a retired teacher of English and lives in the East Riding.

DAVID HEALEY was Chair of the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival for six years. An ex-GP, he now works for the Suffolk Wildlife Trust. He’s had poems in Agenda, Smiths Knoll, The Rialto, a Flarestack pamphlet and on Radio 4.

J.C.M. HEPPLE was born in Norfolk and now lives in Richmond. He’s had poems in a variety of magazines etc., - Arts Council Anthologies, the Express, Spectator, Times, Country Life, The Rialto, London Magazine, Magma, Smiths Knoll, and Radio 4.

DAVID HOLBROOK was born in 1923 in Norwich, and has been Emeritus Fellow at Downing College, Cambridge since 1989.

SARAH HYMAS’s poems have appeared in anthologies, magazines, pamphlets, operas, dance videos, multimedia exhibits and as song lyrics. She lives in Lancaster and is editor of Flax Books.

SARAH JACKSON lives in Brighton and is completing a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing. Her pamphlet Milk is shortlisted for the Michael Marks Award and she has recently gained Arts Council funding to work on a sequence of poems about submarines.

JUDITH LAL lives in Norwich and has an MA in Creative Writing from UEA. Flageolets at the Bazaar was a winner of the poetry Business Pamphlet Competition, it is published by Smith/Doorstop and is a PBS recommendation.

LORRAINE MARINER’s pamphlet Bye For Now is available from The Rialto at £5.50. Her first full collection, Furniture, in which JESSICA ELTON features, has recently been published by Picador.

ROY MARSHALL was born in 1966 and after trying a variety of jobs is now a ‘full time husband, father and nurse.’ He lives in Leicestershire and rides an oily racing bike to work. This is the first poem of his to appear in print.

PAUL MAY’s poems have been published in Gairfish, the New Statesman, Oxford Poetry, Rain Dog, Smith’s Knoll and in New Chatto Poets 2. He lives in Surrey.

DAVID MORLEY is Director of the Warwick Writer’s Programme at Warwick University. His most recent collection is The Invisible Kings, a book of Romany poems which is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

HELENA NELSON runs the excellent Happenstance Press in Fife and ‘occasionally writes poems.’ Her prize-winning first collection Starlight on Water is available from The Rialto (£7.95)

RENNIE PARKER lives in Lincolnshire. Her work has featured in Templar poetry’s 2008 anthology Buzz, and as part of a public footpath project in Cumbria. She has published with Flambard and Shoestring.

STEPHEN PAYNE is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Bath and a student in the Poetry School. He’s had poems in several magazines, most recently Envoi, Magma, Seam, Orbis and The Chimaera.

DAPHNE RANCE decided to be famous by her 18th birthday. Failed. Many years later she started writing again, and has had poems in Acumen, Envoi, Other Poetry, Staple and the 2003 Biscuit Competition Anthology. She is ‘over the moon at being chosen for Rialto.’

PHILIP RUSH is an English teacher in Gloucestershire. He plays Irish tunes on a fiddle, and has had poems in The Rialto before, and elsewhere, including Carcanet’s New Poetries IV.

KATE SCOTT’s first collection Stitches was published by Peterloo. She is currently poet-in-residence for several National Trust sites in West Dorset and has several readings forthcoming in the south west.

JOHN SEWELL lives in Derbyshire where he works as a conservation architect. His most recent collection, Bursting The Clouds, was published by Cape.

RUTH SILCOCK’s most recent collection is Biographies Etc (2004), from Anvil. She lives in Oxfordshire.

MIRANDA STONOR was a book editor for many years but now concentrates on writing, especially poetry. She lives in London.

GORDON WARDMAN is currently preoccupied with Bird, a work in 12 sections each containing 111 short poems. Or GORDON WARDMAN is an ex-pat Geordie living in Harlow, Essex, with a typewriter.

ROGER WATERFIELD was born in India, read Classics at Cambridge; taught; retired early to mid Wales; is involved with the Church and the Labour Party; has poems in various magazines.

LUCY ANNE WATT lives in London at the moment. She has published a novel, short stories and poetry.

LAURA WEBB was born in Merseyside in 1985. She has lived in Spain and studied English, and then Creative Writing: Poetry, at the University of Manchester. Poems have appeared in Magma, Poetry Ireland and Stand.

JOHN WEST lives in Victoria, Australia. He has a Selected Poems in preparation.

RODDY WILLIAMS is a Welsh exile and now lives, writes, paints and works in London. His poetry has most recently appeared in nthposition, 63 Channels, Ink Sweat and Tears, Magma, and Monkey Kettle. He was shortlisted for last year’s Bridport Prize.

EMILY WILLS lives in Gloucestershire and works as a GP. Her second collection Developing The Negative is published by The Rialto (£8.50).

MARGARET WILMOT was born in California but has lived in Sussex for the last many (many) years.’ She had a poem in the previous issue of The Rialto.