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Gary Allen lives in Ballymena, Co. Antrim. A collection, Mending Churches” is out from Lapwing, Belfast. Norman Arnold grew up in SE London and now lives on the Isle of Wight. Easy to mistake for a cabbage in his green council tracksuit, J. Brookes is now lording it over a Cardiff recreation ground. Barbara Daniels lives in Usk, having retired from teaching literature. She started writing poetry a year ago, after the birth of her first grandchild. Nell Davies is making the best of what summer there is in a deckchair in her Cardiff garden. Garry Ely lives in Liwyncelyn, West Wales. Robert Godfrey was born in the Old Kent Road in 1964 and has lived in the States. He describes himself as “a failed novelist with seven unpublished tomes behind me..." Mark Goodwin was a winner of a 1996 East Midlands arts bursary. He lives with his wife and daughter in the “far-too-flat flatlands of Leicestershire”. Out next year from Slow Dancer, “Morning Light” will be the latest of many books from Lee Harwood. Geoff Hattersley lives in South Yorkshire where he co-edits The Wide Skirt with Jeanette Hattersley. Reborn nine years ago after escaping from the Evil Empire, Sacha Karaulov now works in Cardiff. Tom Kelly was born in Jarrow in 1947. He’s been published in many mags, and has a pamphlet, “Their Lives”, out from Tears in the Fence. Peter Lewin has a growing reputation as a performer, as well as a pamphlet, “Knightwood”, out from Dog. Laura Madden works in a residential home for the elderly in Newport. Helen MeCleary is a musician and artist and lives in north Donegal. Born in Cardiff and still decorating the city, Topher Mills earns his living as a writer and performer. Back from two months in his native Ireland, Xavier Mulligan is again pleasantly haunting the snooker clubs of Cardiff. Roy Parsons lives in North Wales where he works as a carpenter. Andrew Pye lives in the West Midlands. Powys born and bred, Sally Rooke is “increasingly discontented behind the counter of a Bristol bookshop”... Guy Russell was born in Kent in 1965 and now works as a media analyst in Milton Keynes. Roger Sadler was born in 1941 in Newport. He’s worked as a fork-lift truck driver, postman and wireless operator, and has only recently begun to write poems. Ian D. Smith was born in Manchester in 1961, and now lives in Reading. Ifor Thomas, one of Cardiff s real assets, informs me that “things are looking up. Patrick Waites’s first novel, Launch Burial, won him the Southern Arts Writers Award for 1994. He’s now working on his second.